Demographic consequences of anthropogenic influences: Florida black bears in north-central Florida

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2456-2463

  Hostetler, Jeffrey A ^a   Walter McCown, J ^b   Garrison, Elina P ^b   Neils, Aletris M ^a   Barrett, Mark A ^b   Sunquist, Melvin E ^a   Simek, Stephanie L ^b   Oli, Madan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic influences on wildlife; Demographic effects of habitat fragmentation; Matrix population model; Population dynamics; Population growth rate; Removal modeling; Ursus americanus floridanus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEAR; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FECUNDITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MOVEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 69249221303     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.05.029     Document Type: Article

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