Tigers and their prey: Predicting carnivore densities from prey abundance

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 101, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 4854-4858

  Karanth, K Ullas ^a   Nichols, James D ^b   Kumar, N Samba ^a   Link, William A ^b   Hines, James E ^b  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (India)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; DENSITY; MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TIGER; UNGULATE;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 1842636927     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0306210101     Document Type: Article

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