Death by a thousand huts? Effects of household presence on density and distribution of Mongolian gazelles

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 304-312

  Olson, Kirk A ^a,b   Mueller, Thomas ^c,d   Kerby, Jeff T ^e   Bolortsetseg, Sanjaa ^f   Leimgruber, Peter ^d   Nicolson, Craig R ^a   Fuller, Todd K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MONGOLIA   (Mongolia)

^c Graduate Program in Behavior Evolution and Systematics   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Grassland; Human wildlife conflict; Mongolian gazelles; NDVI; Population estimation; Procapra gutturosa

Indexed keywords

PROCAPRA GUTTUROSA; UNGULATA;

EID: 80053196393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00180.x     Document Type: Article

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