Habitat use by carnivores at different spatial scales in a plantation forest landscape in Patagonia, Argentina

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 269, Issue , 2012, Pages 271-278

  Lantschner, María Victoria ^a   Rusch, Verónica ^a   Hayes, John P ^b  

^a Inst Nac de Tecnol Agropecuaria   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conifer plantation; Habitat fragmentation; Land use change; Landscape scale

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CONIFER PLANTATIONS; FOREST PLANTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; INDUSTRIAL WOOD; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE SCALE; MANAGEMENT DECISIONS; PATAGONIA; PLANTATION FORESTS; SPATIAL SCALE; TREE DENSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MAMMALS;

FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; CANID; CARNIVORE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FELID; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NATIVE SPECIES; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAMMALS; PLANTATIONS; SOFTWOODS;

ARGENTINA; PATAGONIA;

CONEPATUS CHINGA; CONIFEROPHYTA; MAMMALIA; ONCIFELIS GEOFFROYI; PSEUDALOPEX; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 84856577751     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.12.045     Document Type: Article

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