Assessing habitat suitability for tiger in the fragmented Terai Arc Landscape of India and Nepal

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 970-981

  Kanagaraj, Rajapandian ^a,b   Wiegand, Thorsten ^a   Kramer Schadt, Stephanie ^a,c   Anwar, Meraj ^b   Goyal, Surendra P ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT SELECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NICHE; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PROTECTED AREA; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUBPOPULATION;

INDIA; NEPAL;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 79953805733     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06482.x     Document Type: Article

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