Range-wide analysis of wildlife habitat: Implications for conservation

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1960-1969

  Viña, Andrés ^a   Tuanmu, Mao Ning ^a   Xu, Weihua ^b   Li, Yu ^a   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^b   DeFries, Ruth ^c   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Giant panda; Habitat modeling; MODIS; Nature reserve; Range wide analysis

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION STATUS; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; MODIS; NATURE RESERVE; REINTRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING;

CHINA; GANSU; QINLING MOUNTAINS; SHAANXI; SICHUAN;

AILUROPODA; AILUROPODA MELANOLEUCA;

EID: 77955095825     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.04.046     Document Type: Article

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