Habitat use by sympatric jaguars and pumas across a gradient of human disturbance in Belize

Biotropica

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 724-731

  Foster, Rebecca J ^a,b   Harmsen, Bart J ^a,b   Doncaster, C Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PANTHERA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity; Camera trap; Carnivore; Coexistence; Felid; Panthera onca; Puma concolor

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTURBANCE; FELID; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; LIVESTOCK; PASTURE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDATION RISK; PROTECTED AREA; RAINFOREST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SAVANNA; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SYMPATRY;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA];

FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 78149242193     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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