The effects of understory bamboo on broad-scale estimates of giant panda habitat

Biological Conservation

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 383-390

  Linderman, Marc ^a,d   Bearer, Scott ^a   An, Li ^a   Tan, Yingchun ^b   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^c   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wolong Giant Panda Research Center   (China)

^c RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Habitat modeling; Landscape; Remote sensing; Understory vegetation

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; REMOTE SENSING; UNDERSTORY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; MELANOLEUCA; PANDA;

EID: 4344639327     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2004.05.011     Document Type: Article

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