Assessing spatiotemporal changes in tiger habitat across different land management regimes

Ecosphere

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Carter, Neil H ^a,d   Gurung, Bhim ^b   Viña, Andrés ^a   Campa III, Henry ^a   Karki, Jhamak B ^c   Liu, Jianguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nepal Tiger Trust   (Nepal)

^c Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation   (Nepal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera trap; Community based management; Habitat change; N mixture; Panthera tigris; Protected areas; Tiger

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901006413     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES13-00191.1     Document Type: Article

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