Modelling species distribution at multiple spatial scales: Gibbon habitat preferences in a fragmented landscape

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 324-332

  Gray, T N E ^a   Phan, C ^a   Long, B ^b  

^a World Wide Fund for Nature Greater Mekong   (Cambodia)

^b WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Evergreen forest; Fragmentation; Lower Mekong Dry Forest Ecoregion; Model averaging; Mondulkiri; Multi grain models; Nomascus gabriellae gibbon

Indexed keywords

ENDANGERED SPECIES; EVERGREEN FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MODELING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMATE; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CAMBODIA; MEKONG RIVER;

HYLOBATIDAE; NOMASCUS CONCOLOR; NOMASCUS GABRIELLAE; PRIMATES;

EID: 77952867689     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00351.x     Document Type: Article

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