Large Forest Patches Promote Breeding Success of a Terrestrial Mammal in Urban Landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Soga, Masashi ^a   Koike, Shinsuke ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; BREEDING SUCCESS; CAMERA; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOREST STRUCTURE; HABITAT PATCHINESS; JAPAN; LANDSCAPE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROBABILITY; RACCOON DOG; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BREEDING; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; RACCOON DOGS; TREES;

MAMMALIA; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES; PROCYON;

EID: 84871747643     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051802     Document Type: Article

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