The influence of anthropogenic resources on multi-scale habitat selection by raccoons

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-425

  Bozek, Clare K ^c   Prange, Suzanne ^b   Gehrt, Stanley D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat selection; Illinois; Procyon lotor; Raccoon

Indexed keywords

PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 35248846962     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-007-0033-8     Document Type: Article

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