Mapping wildlife: Integrating stakeholder knowledge with modelled patterns of deer abundance by using participatory GIS

Wildlife Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 553-564

  Austin, Z ^a   Cinderby, S ^a   Smart, J C R ^a   Raffaelli, D ^a   White, P C L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deer vehicle collisions; Geographic information systems; Management conflict resolution; Predictive spatial model; Stakeholder participation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA MANAGEMENT; DEER; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GIS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MAPPING; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STAKEHOLDER; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CERVIDAE; DAMA DAMA; MUNTIACUS;

EID: 71049189243     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR08153     Document Type: Article

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