Environmental factors affecting the distribution of the wild boar, sika deer, Asiatic black bear and Japanese macaque in Central Japan, with implications for human-wildlife conflict

Mammal Study

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-116

  Honda, Takeshi ^a  

^a Yamanashi Prefecture Agricultural Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conditional autoregressive model; GIS; Human wildlife conflict; Species distribution; Wildlife management

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS NIPPON; MACACA; SUS SCROFA; UNGULATA; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 77950986413     PISSN: 13434152     EISSN: 13486160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3106/041.034.0206     Document Type: Article

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