Status and activity patterns of the caracal, caracal caracal (schreber, 1776), in datça and bozburun peninsulas, southwestern turkey: (Mammalia: Felidae)

Zoology in the Middle East

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  İlemin, Yasin ^a   Gürkan, Behzat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Activity pattern; Camera trap; Dat a Peninsula; Felis silvestris; Middle East

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ACTIVITY PATTERN; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FELID; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); WOODLAND;

TURKEY;

CAPRA AEGAGRUS; CAPRA HIRCUS; CARACAL CARACAL; FELIS SILVESTRIS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77956385553     PISSN: 09397140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2010.10638405     Document Type: Article

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