Selecting Habitat to Survive: The Impact of Road Density on Survival in a Large Carnivore

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Basille, Mathieu ^a,b   Van Moorter, Bram ^c,d   Herfindal, Ivar ^e   Martin, Jodie ^c,f   Linnell, John D C ^d   Odden, John ^d   Andersen, Reidar ^d,e   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; LYNX; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; ROAD DENSITY; SURVIVAL; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LYNX; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLES; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 84880031501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065493     Document Type: Article

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