Scale domains of abundance amongst species of mammalian Carnivora

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 102-111

  Shawn Smallwood, K ^a,b  

^a Presidio Building 1016 ^*  (United States)

^b Inst for Sustainable Development   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivora; Conservation; Density; Population; Scale; Threshold area

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MAMMAL; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN; CARNIVORA; DENSITY; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPACE;

EID: 0344995239     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892999000156     Document Type: Article

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