Movements and activities of snow leopards in Southwestern Mongolia

Biological Conservation

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 527-537

  McCarthy, Thomas M ^a,c   Fuller, Todd K ^a   Munkhtsog, Bariusha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Mongolian Assoc Conserv Nat E   (Mongolia)

^c Snow Leopard Network   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity patterns; Home range; Mongolia; Satellite radio telemetry; Snow leopard; Uncia uncia

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BIOTELEMETRY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FELID; HOME RANGE;

ALTAI MOUNTAINS; ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CAPRA; CAPRA IBEX; FELIDAE; PANTHERA PARDUS; UNCIA UNCIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 17644378423     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.03.003     Document Type: Article

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