Reproduction and mortality of invasive raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) in the Biatowieža Primeval Forest (eastern Poland)

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 291-301

  Kowalczyk, Rafat ^a   Zalewski, Andrzej ^a   Jçdrzejewska, Bogumita ^a   Ansorge, Hermann ^b   Bunevich, Aleksei N ^c  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

^c State National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha   (Belarus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CARNIVORE; DISPERSAL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; JUVENILE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLE; MORTALITY; NATIVE SPECIES; NEONATE; PREDATION; RABIES; SURVIVAL;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES;

EID: 57349137364     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0406     Document Type: Article

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