Potential effects of the United States-Mexico border fence on wildlife: Contributed paper

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-181

  Flesch, Aaron D ^a,e   Epps, Clinton W ^b,f   Cain III, James W ^a,g   Clark, Matt ^c   Krausman, Paul R ^a,h   Morgart, John R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bighorn sheep; Connectivity; Dispersal; Flight behavior; Gene flow; Least cost path; Pygmy owl; Transboundary conservation; U.S. Mexico border

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIFE HISTORY; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; NATAL DISPERSAL; PREDATOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; SHEEP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; MEXICO; POPULATION MIGRATION; UNITED STATES; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIODIVERSITY; MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

ARIZONA; UNITED STATES;

GLAUCIDIUM (AVES); GLAUCIDIUM BRASILIANUM; OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; OVIS CANADENSIS MEXICANA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 74549179117     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01277.x     Document Type: Article

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