Comparing Habitat Suitability and Connectivity Modeling Methods for Conserving Pronghorn Migrations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Poor, Erin E ^a   Loucks, Colby ^a   Jakes, Andrew ^b   Urban, Dean L ^c  

^a World Wildlife Fund ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRAIRIE; PREDICTION; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTANA; SASKATCHEWAN; SEASONS;

ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA; ANTILOCAPRIDAE;

EID: 84869205478     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049390     Document Type: Article

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