Land-cover change and the future of the Apennine brown bear: A perspective from the past

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1502-1511

  Falcucci, Alessandra ^a,b   Maiorano, Luigi ^a,b   Ciucci, Paolo ^a   Garton, Edward O ^b   Boitani, Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Abruzzo; Bear conservation; Geographic information system; Habitat modeling; Italy; Landscape dynamics; Ursus arctos marsicanus

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GIS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MARKOV CHAIN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SUBSPECIES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 58149213933     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-229.1     Document Type: Article

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