Big Cats in Our Backyards: Persistence of Large Carnivores in a Human Dominated Landscape in India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Athreya, Vidya ^a   Odden, Morten ^b   Linnell, John D C ^c   Krishnaswamy, Jagdish ^d   Karanth, Ullas ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (India)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CAT; CROPLAND; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HERBIVORE; HYAENA HYAENA; INDIA; LANDSCAPE; LAW; NONHUMAN; PANTHERA; PANTHERA PARDUS; PHOTOGRAPHY; POLICY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WILDERNESS; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; CARNIVORY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FELIDAE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYAENIDAE; INDIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PANTHERA; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874608122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0057872     Document Type: Article

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