Forecasting the effect of land-use change on native and non-native mammalian predator distributions

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2853-2871

  Hilty, J A ^a,b   Brooks, C ^a   Heaton, E ^a   Merenlender, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Carnivore; Landscape; Logistic regression; Non native species; Northern California; Oak woodland; Predator; Predictive modeling; Probability distribution

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAMMAL; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR; VINEYARD; WOODLAND;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CARNIVORA; DIDELPHIDAE; FELIS CATUS; LYNX RUFUS; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; PROCYON LOTOR; PUMA CONCOLOR; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

EID: 33749004538     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-005-1534-5     Document Type: Article

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