Modeling Florida panther movements in response to human attributes of the landscape and ecological settings

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 140, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 51-80

  Cramer, Patricia C ^a,c   Portier, Kenneth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Florida; Florida panther; Human density; Landscape; Puma concolor coryi; Reintroduction; Spatially explicit model; Suwannee River

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041641655     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00268-X     Document Type: Article

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