Carnivore translocations and conservation: Insights from population models and field data for fishers (martes pennanti)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Lewis, Jeffrey C ^a   Powell, Roger A ^b   Zielinski, William J ^c  

^a WASHINGTON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; MARTES PENNANTI; MUSTELIDAE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION MODEL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARNIVORA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MARTES PENNANTI;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSTELIDAE; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84858984008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032726     Document Type: Article

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