Effects of Culling on Mesopredator Population Dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Beasley, James C ^a   Olson, Zachary H ^a,b   Beatty, William S ^a,c   Dharmarajan, Guha ^a,d   Rhodes, Olin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH KOLKATA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULLING; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT PATCHINESS; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE; MALE; MARK RECAPTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR; RACCOON; SPECIES HABITAT;

EID: 84875126657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058982     Document Type: Article

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