Predicting Human-Carnivore Conflict: A Spatial Model Derived from 25 Years of Data on Wolf Predation on Livestock

Conservation Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 114-125

  Treves, Adrian ^a,b   Naughton Treves, Lisa ^a,b,c   Harper, Elizabeth K ^d   Mladenoff, David J ^c   Rose, Robert A ^c   Sickley, Theodore A ^c   Wydeven, Adrian P ^e  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^e WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; LIVESTOCK; MAPPING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PREDATION;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0348102465     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2004.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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