Mosaics of exotic forest plantations and native forests as habitat of pumas

Environmental Management

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 237-253

  Mazzolli, Marcelo ^a  

^a Projeto Puma   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Forestry; Habitat fragmentation; Live trapping; Radio tracking; Tracks

Indexed keywords

CAREFUL MANAGEMENT; FOREST PLANTATION; FORESTRY OPERATIONS; HABITAT CONDITIONS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HIGH DENSITY; HOME RANGE; HUMAN DISTURBANCES; HUMAN SETTLEMENTS; INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION; LIVE-TRAPPING; NATIVE FORESTS; NEW APPROACHES; PAVED ROAD; PINUS SPP; SIMILAR NUMBERS; SOUTHERN BRAZIL; STUDY SITES; TRACKS; TWO-LANE; VEHICULAR TRAFFIC; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS;

CAMERAS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; MAINTAINABILITY; TIMBER;

ECOLOGY;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FELID; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; TRACKING; TRAPPING; URBAN AREA; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUCALYPTUS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSCAPING; PINE; PLANTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PUMA; SPECIES HABITAT; TRAFFIC; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; PUMA;

CAMERAS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION; MAINTENANCE;

BRAZIL;

EUCALYPTUS; FELIDAE; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 77956190497     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-010-9528-9     Document Type: Article

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