Environmental correlates of Eurasian lynx occurrence in Poland - Large scale census and GIS mapping

Biological Conservation

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-69

  Niedziałkowska, Magdalena ^a   Jedrzejewski, Włodzimierz ^a   Mysłajek, Robert W ^b   Nowak, Sabina ^b   Jedrzejewska, Bogumiła ^a   Schmidt, Krzysztof ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b Association for Nature Wolf   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dispersal barriers; Forest cover; Forest fragmentation; Lynx lynx

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CENSUS; FELID; FOREST COVER; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 33748695167     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.05.022     Document Type: Article

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