Predicting wild boar damages to croplands in a mosaic of agricultural and natural areas

Current Zoology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 170-179

  Ficetola, Gentile Francesco ^a   Bonardi, Anna ^a   Mairota, Paola ^b   Leronni, Vincenzo ^b   Padoa Schioppa, Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental heterogeneity; Human wildlife conflict; Landscape composition; Predictive distribution model; Protected areas; Spatial scale; Sus scrofa

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899142641     PISSN: 16745507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/czoolo/60.2.170     Document Type: Article

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