Seasonal habitat selection of an expanding sika deer Cervus nippon population in eastern Hokkaido, Japan

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-153

  Sakuragi, Mayumi ^a   Igota, Hiromasa ^a   Uno, Hiroyuki ^b   Kaji, Koichi ^b   Kaneko, Masami ^b,d   Akamatsu, Rika ^c   Maekawa, Koji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hokkaido Institute of Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^c EnVision Conservation Office   (Japan)

^d RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervus nippon; Geographic information system; Habitat selection; Logistic regression; Radio telemetry; Resource selection function; Sika deer

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE; CERVUS; CERVUS NIPPON;

EID: 0042863171     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.2003.036     Document Type: Article

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