Blue sheep in the Annapurna conservation area, Nepal: Habitat use, population biomass and their contribution to the carrying capacity of snow leopards

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-45

  Aryal, Achyut ^a,b   Brunton, Dianne ^a   Ji, Weihong ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^a,c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b Fauna and Flora Conservation Nepal   (Nepal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blue sheep; Carrying capacity; Habitat use; Population density; Snow leopard

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BLUE SHEEP; CARRYING CAPACITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FELIDAE; HABITAT USE; NEPAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; SNOW LEOPARD; STATISTICS;

BLUE SHEEP; CARRYING CAPACITY; HABITAT USE; POPULATION DENSITY; SNOW LEOPARD;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FELIDAE; NEPAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP;

EID: 84902214787     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1749-4877.12004     Document Type: Article

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