Habitat use and home range of brown-nosed coati, Nasua nasua (Carnivora: Procyonidae) in the Brazilian Cerrado biome

Revista de Biologia Tropical

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1069-1077

  Trovati, Roberto Guilherme ^a   de Brito, Bernardo Alves ^b   Duarte, José Maurício Barbanti ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Departamento de Criação de Unidades de Conservação IBAMA   (Brazil)

^c SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazil; Core area; Habitat selection; Nasua nasua; Overlap; Radio tracking; Savanna

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCYONIDAE; TELEMETRY; PROCEDURES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; MALE; PROCYONIDAE; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; NASUA; NASUA NASUA; PROCYONIDAE;

EID: 77956832062     PISSN: 00347744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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