Broad-scale predictors of canada lynx occurrence in eastern North America

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 739-751

  Hoving, Christopher L ^a,e   Harrison, Daniel J ^a   Krohn, William B ^b   Joseph, Ronald A ^c   O'Brien, Mike ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

^d NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^e MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Canada lynx; Climate; Habitat; Information theoretic approach; Landscape ecology; Logistic regression; Lynx canadensis; Predictive models; Snowfall

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FELID; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

GASPE; LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; LYNX RUFUS;

EID: 23644448413     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[0739:BPOCLO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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