Efficacy of photographic scent stations to detect mountain lions

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 529-532

  Long, Eric S ^a,b   Fecske, Dorothy M ^c   Sweitzer, Richard A ^a   Jenks, Jonathan A ^c   Pierce, Becky M ^d   Bleich, Vernon C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic cameras; Mountain lion; Puma concolor; Scent lures; Scent stations

Indexed keywords

PANTHERA LEO; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 0346899472     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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