Quantifying landscape ruggedness for animal habitat analysis: A case study using bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1419-1426

  Sappington, J Mark ^a,c   Longshore, Kathleen M ^b   Thompson, Daniel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Escape terrain; Geographic Information System; Habitat analysis; Landscape ruggedness; Mojave Desert; Ovis canadensis nelsoni

Indexed keywords

DESERT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOUNTAIN REGION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SITE CHARACTERIZATION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS NELSONI;

EID: 48249146522     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2005-723     Document Type: Article

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