Landscape ecology of eastern coyotes based on large-scale estimates of abundance

Ecological Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1014-1027

  Kays, Roland W ^a   Gompper, Matthew E ^b   Ray, Justina C ^c  

^a NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c Wildlife Conservation Society Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Adirondack state park; Canis latrans; Eastern coyote; Fecal DNA; Landscape ecology; New York; Noninvasive survey

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; CANID; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FECES; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PREDICTION; RANGE EXPANSION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ADIRONDACK PARK; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COYOTE; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COYOTES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 50549099663     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0298.1     Document Type: Article

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