Relationship between carnivore distribution and landscape features in the northern highlands ecological landscape of wisconsin

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Haskell, Daniel E ^a   Webster, Christopher R ^a   Flaspohler, David J ^a   Meyer, Michael W ^b  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bureau of Science Services   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CARNIVORE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; POPULATION DECLINE; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPLAND REGION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

AMPHIBIA; AVES; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CANIS LUPUS; LONTRA CANADENSIS; LYNX; LYNX RUFUS; MAMMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84872857015     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-169.1.1     Document Type: Article

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