Hair snares for noninvasive sampling of felids in North America: Do gray foxes affect success?

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2090-2094

  Downey, Patricia J ^a   Hellgren, Eric C ^b   Caso, Arturo ^c   Carvajal, Sasha ^d   Frangioso, Kerri ^e  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^d Inst Tecn de   (Mexico)

^e Wildlife Conservation Society   (United States)

Author keywords

Felids; Gray fox; Hair snares; Leopardus wiedii; Margays; Mexico; Mountain lions; Puma concolor; Urocyon cinereoargenteus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CANID; FELID; HAIR; SAMPLING;

CALIFORNIA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FELIDAE; LEOPARDUS WIEDII; PUMA CONCOLOR; UROCYON; UROCYON CINEREOARGENTEUS;

EID: 48249087630     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-500     Document Type: Article

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