Evaluating coyote management strategies using a spatially explicit, individual-based, socially structured population model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 219, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 234-247

  Conner, Mary M ^a   Ebinger, Michael R ^a   Knowlton, Frederick F ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Canid management; Coyote; Coyote control strategies; Coyote population reduction strategies; Individual based models; Social structure; Spatially explicit models; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; REMOVAL; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BEHAVIOR; CANID MANAGEMENT; COYOTE; COYOTE CONTROL STRATEGIES; COYOTE POPULATION REDUCTION STRATEGIES; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT MODELS; TERRITORIALITY;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CANID; DOMINANCE; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATION; PREDATOR CONTROL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TERRITORIALITY;

CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS;

EID: 54249124966     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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