Suitable habitats for cougars (Puma concolor) in Texas and Northern Mexico

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 314-318

  Hernandez Santin, Lorna ^a   Harveson, Patricia M ^a   Harveson, Louis A ^a  

^a SUL ROSS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 84866410498     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/0038-4909-57.3.314     Document Type: Article

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