A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines

Biological Conservation

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 141-150

  Posillico, Mario ^a,c   Meriggi, Alberto ^b   Pagnin, Elisa ^c   Lovari, Sandro ^c   Russo, Luigi ^d  

^a Gestione Ex Azienda Stato Foreste D   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d Parco Naturale Regionale Monti S ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Central Italy; Distribution; Habitat modelling; Management; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT; LAND USE PLANNING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 1842737066     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.017     Document Type: Article

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