Saiga antelope calving site selection is increasingly driven by human disturbance

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1770-1779

  Singh, N J ^a   Grachev, I A ^b   Bekenov, A B ^b   Milner Gulland, E J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Zoology Almaty Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan   (Kazakhstan)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Disturbance; Habitat use; NDVI; Predictive models

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; AGGREGATION; CATTLE; DISTURBANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD SURVEY; GRAZING; HABITAT USE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LIVESTOCK; MONITORING; NDVI; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION; SITE SELECTION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

KAZAKHSTAN;

EID: 77954635417     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.026     Document Type: Article

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