Evaluating the Canada lynx reintroduction programme in Colorado: Patterns in mortality

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 524-531

  Devineau, Olivier ^a,c   Shenk, Tanya M ^b   White, Gary C ^a   Doherty Jr, Paul F ^a   Lukacs, Paul M ^b   Kahn, Richard H ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^c Fundacion Charles Darwin   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Canada lynx; Carnivore; Colorado; Known fate model; Lynx canadensis; Mortality; Multistate model; Program MARK; Reintroduction; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EMIGRATION; FELID; HABITAT USE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; REINTRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURVIVORSHIP; TELEMETRY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 77952789443     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01805.x     Document Type: Article

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