Density and habitat use of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in three commercial forest reserves in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 82-89

  Mohamed, Azlan ^a,b   Sollmann, Rahel ^c   Bernard, Henry ^b   Ambu, Laurentius N ^d   Lagan, Peter ^e   Mannan, Sam ^e   Hofer, Heribert ^f   Wilting, Andreas ^f  

^a WWF Malaysia   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SABAH   (Malaysia)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SABAH WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (Malaysia)

^e FOREST RESEARCH CENTRE   (Malaysia)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

camera trapping; Felidae; logging concession; Southeast Asia; spatial capture recapture models

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARNIVORE; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENCOUNTER RATE; FELID; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LOGGING (TIMBER); MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PIONEER SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAINFOREST; RANGE SIZE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE; TRAPPING;

BORNEO; EAST MALAYSIA; MALAYSIA; SABAH; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 84874073776     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-394.1     Document Type: Article

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