Finnish wolves avoid roads and settlements

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 523-532

  Kaartinen, Salla ^a   Kojola, Ilpo ^a   Colpaert, Alfred ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; ROAD; SAFETY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 27744604141     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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