Factors affecting Eurasian lynx kill rates on semi-domestic reindeer in northern Scandinavia: Can ecological research contribute to the development of a fair compensation system?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3009-3017

  Mattisson, Jenny ^a,b   Odden, John ^b   Nilsen, Erlend B ^b   Linnell, John D C ^b   Persson, Jens ^a   Andrén, Henrik ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Human carnivore conflict; Kill rate; Lynx lynx; Predation; Rangifer tarandus

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COMPENSATION; DEER; DOMESTIC SPECIES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FELID; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SCANDINAVIA;

LYNX; LYNX LYNX; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 83555173627     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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