Patterns and causes of non-natural mortality in the Iberian lynx during a 40-year period of range contraction

Biological Conservation

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 151-161

  Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a   Delibes, Miguel ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Extinction; Game management; Land use; Lynx pardinus; Non natural mortality

Indexed keywords

FELID; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; MORALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; REINTRODUCTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 1842787553     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.018     Document Type: Article

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