Prescribed fire and conservation of a threatened mountain grassland specialist: A capture-recapture study on the Orsini's viper in the French alps

Animal Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 238-248

  Lyet, Arnaud ^a,b   Cheylan, M ^a   Prodon, R ^a   Besnard, A ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b Conservatoire Etude des Ecosystèmes de Provence Alpes du Sud ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fire impact; Fire management; Mark recapture; Multistate modeling; Survival; Threatened species; Vipera ursinii

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; FIRE MANAGEMENT; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LAND USE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MODELING; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

SERPENTES; VIPERA URSINII; VIPERINAE;

EID: 65649116919     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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