A spatial model of potential jaguar habitat in Arizona

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1024-1033

  Hatten, James R ^a,b   Averill Murray, Annalaura ^a   Van Pelt, William E ^a  

^a ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arizona; Conservation; Geographic Information System; GIS; Habitat selection; Jaguar; Landscape; Neighborhood analysis; Panthera onca; Predictive modeling

Indexed keywords

FELID; GIS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; LAND MANAGEMENT; MAPPING; PREDICTION;

ARIZONA; NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

PANTHERA ONCA;

EID: 27944479624     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[1024:ASMOPJ]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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