Population viability of the Siberian Tiger in a changing landscape: Going, going and gone?

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 222, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 3166-3180

  Tian, Yu ^a   Wu, Jianguo ^b,c,d   Smith, Andrew T ^b   Wang, Tianming ^a   Kou, Xiaojun ^a   Ge, Jianping ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Amur tiger; Habitat degradation; Habitat loss and fragmentation; Poaching; Population viability analysis (PVA); RAMAS GIS

Indexed keywords

AMUR TIGER; HABITAT DEGRADATION; HABITAT LOSS; POACHING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; RAMAS/GIS;

CONSERVATION; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FELID; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GIS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; METAPOPULATION; MOVEMENT; POACHING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; CHINA; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; RUSSIA;

CHINA; RUSSIAN FAR EAST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS ALTAICA; PANTHERA TIGRIS LONGIPILIS;

EID: 80051941801     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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