Identifying breeding habitat for the iberian lynx: Inferences from a fine-scale spatial analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1310-1324

  Fernández, Néstor ^a   Delibes, Miguel ^a   Palomares, Francisco ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding habitat quality; Carnivores; Conservation biology; Do ana; Endangered species; Habitat modeling; Habitat restoration; Landscape ecology; Lynx pardinus; Oryctolagus cuniculus; Territory size

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0346269209     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-5081     Document Type: Article

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