Evaluating the status of the Endangered tiger Panthera tigris and its prey in Panna Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh, India

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Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 383-389

  Gopal, Rajesh ^a   Qureshi, Qamar ^b   Bhardwaj, Manish ^b   Jagadish Singh, R K ^b   Jhala, Yadvendradev V ^b  

^a National Tiger Conservation Authority   (India)

^b WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

India; local extinction; mark recapture; occupancy; Panna Tiger Reserve; Panthera tigris; tiger; ungulates

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; NATURE RESERVE; POACHING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRAPPING; UNGULATE; VULNERABILITY;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; PANNA; RAJASTHAN; SARISKA TIGER RESERVE;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77958456554     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310000529     Document Type: Article

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