Seasonal altitudinal movements of golden takin in the qinling mountains of China

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 611-617

  Zeng, Zhi Gao ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b   Song, Yan Ling ^a   Wang, Tie Jun ^b   Gong, Hui Sheng ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Foping National Nature Reserve   (China)

Author keywords

Altitude; Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi; Golden takin; Management; Qinling Mountains; Seasonal movement

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; MANAGEMENT; MIGRATION; MOUNTAIN; MOVEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNGULATE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; FOPING NATURE RESERVE; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SHAANXI;

BUDORCAS TAXICOLOR; BUDORCAS TAXICOLOR BEDFORDI; UNGULATA;

EID: 42149191216     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-197     Document Type: Article

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