An integrated framework to map animal distributions in large and remote regions

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 289-298

  Travaini, Alejandro ^a   Bustamante, Javier ^b   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^b   Zapata, Sonia ^a   Procopio, Diego ^a   Pedrana, Julieta ^a   Peck, Rolando Martínez ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

CYBERTRACKER; Gathering field information; GIS; Patagonia; PDA; Wildlife censuses; Wildlife distribution maps

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; GIS; MAP; MAPPING METHOD; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SOFTWARE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMALIA; LAMA GUANICOE;

EID: 34247393175     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00338.x     Document Type: Article

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