Spatial structure and land-cover use in a low-density Mediterranean population of Eurasian badgers

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1493-1502

  Rosalino, Luís Miguel ^a   Macdonald, David White ^b   Santos Reis, Margarida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; VEGETATION; WOOD;

FARMLAND; FOOD-PATCH DISPERSION; LANDSCAPE; SPATIAL STRUCTURES;

LAND USE;

HOME RANGE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LAND COVER; MUSTELID; POPULATION DENSITY;

LAND USE; ORCHARDS; ORGANIZATIONS; PLANTS; QUERCUS; WOOD;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

MELES MELES; QUERCUS; QUERCUS SUBER; RIPARIA; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 11144248493     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-130     Document Type: Article

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