Age assignment to individual African lions

African Journal of Wildlife Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-9

  Ferreira, Sam ^a   Funston, Paul J ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

^b TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African lion; age assignment; growth; shoulder height

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION MAKING; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FELID; GROWTH CURVE; LINEARITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

AFRICA;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA LEO;

EID: 77956304462     PISSN: 03794369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3957/056.040.0103     Document Type: Article

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