A snow-tracking protocol used to delineate local lynx, Lynx canadensis, distributions

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 583-589

  Squires, John R ^a   McKelvey, Kevin S ^a   Ruggiero, Leonard F ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Canada Lynx; Distribution; Forest carnivore; Lynx canadensis; Montana; Snow track; Surveys; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRACKING;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 33644971622     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v118i4.60     Document Type: Article

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