Delineating priority habitat areas for the conservation of Andean bears in northern Ecuador

Ursus

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 222-233

  Peralvo, Manuel F ^a,c   Cuesta, Francisco ^a   Van Manen, Frank ^b  

^a EcoCiencia   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Andean bear; Andes Mountains; Conservation planning; Ecuador; Geographical information system; GIS; Habitat suitability; Mahalanobis distance; Tremarctos ornatus

Indexed keywords

TREMARCTOS ORNATUS;

EID: 33645958628     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2005)016[0222:DPHAFT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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