Ecological Niche modeling of the sympatric giant and red pandas on a mountain-range scale

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2127-2141

  Qi, Dunwu ^a,b   Hu, Yibo ^a,b   Gu, Xiaodong ^c   Li, Ming ^a   Wei, Fuwen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Wildlife Conservation Division   (China)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Discriminant analysis (DA); Ecological niche factor analysis (ENFA); Habitat selection; Liangshan mountains (LSM); Spatial scale; Species distribution model

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; MAMMAL; MOUNTAIN REGION; NATURE RESERVE; NICHE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SYMPATRY;

AILURIDAE; AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA; AILURUS FULGENS; CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 70350619758     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-009-9577-7     Document Type: Article

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