Effects of food supplementation on home-range size, reproductive success, productivity and recruitment in a small population of Iberian lynx

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-42

  Lopez Bao J V ^a   Palomares, F ^a   Rodriguez A ^a   Delibes, M ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Body condition; Dispersal rates; Productivity; Recruitment; Spatial behaviour; Survival

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; POPULATION DECLINE; PREY AVAILABILITY; RANGE SIZE; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SURVIVAL;

ANDALUCIA; DONANA; SPAIN;

LYNX; LYNX LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 75649141801     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2009.00300.x     Document Type: Article

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