Estimating habitat suitability and potential population size for brown bears in the Eastern Alps

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1733-1741

  Güthlin, Denise ^a,b   Knauer, Felix ^b,c   Kneib, Thomas ^a,d   Küchenhoff, Helmut ^a   Kaczensky, Petra ^c   Rauer, Georg ^c   Jonozovič, Marko ^e   Mustoni, Andrea ^f   Jerina, Klemen ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^e Slovenia Forest Service   (Slovenia)

^f Parco Naturale Adamello Brenta ^*  (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Discrete choice model; Eastern Alps; European union habitats directive; Habitat selection; Potential population size; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEAR; CONSERVATION STATUS; DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; EUROPEAN UNION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; LOGISTICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 79956212983     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.010     Document Type: Article

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