Female tiger Panthera tigris home range size in the Bangladesh Sundarbans: The value of this mangrove ecosystem for the species-conservation

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Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 125-128

  Barlow, Adam C D ^a,d,e   Smith, James L D ^a   Ahmad, Ishtiaq U ^a,b   Hossain, Abu N M ^b   Rahman, Mizan ^c   Howlader, Alam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b Forest Department of Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

^c Sundarbans Tiger Project   (Bangladesh)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; GPS collar; home range; mangrove; Panthera tigris; Sundarbans; tiger

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; FEMALE; GPS; HOME RANGE; MANGROVE; POLYGON; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

BANGLADESH; SUNDARBANS;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 79952914510     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310001456     Document Type: Article

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