Habitat assessment for the translocation of blue sheep to maintain a viable snow leopard population in the Mt Everest Region, Nepal

Zoology and Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-82

  Aryal, Achyut ^a   Brunton, Dianne ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^a,b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue sheep; Distribution; Habitat preferences; Mt. Everest (Sagarmatha) National Park; Similarity; Snow leopard; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877788917     PISSN: 21658005     EISSN: 21658013     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21658005.2013.765634     Document Type: Article

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