Connectivity of tiger (Panthera tigris) populations in the human-influenced forest mosaic of central India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Joshi, Aditya ^a   Vaidyanathan, Srinivas ^b   Mondo, Samrat ^c   Edgaonkar, Advait ^d   Ramakrishnan, Uma ^c  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Foundation for Ecological Research Advocacy and Learning Pondicherry   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF FOREST MANAGEMENT   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; FOREST; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HABITAT QUALITY; INDIA; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION SIZE; URBANIZATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; INDIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DENSITY; TIGERS; TREES;

EID: 84892424505     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077980     Document Type: Article

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