Agricultural encroachment and lack of enforcement threaten connectivity of range-wide jaguar (Panthera onca) corridor

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 436-444

  Petracca, Lisanne S ^a   Hernández Potosme, Sandra ^a   Obando Sampson, Lenin ^a   Salom Pérez, Roberto ^a   Quigley, Howard ^a   Robinson, Hugh S ^a  

^a PANTHERA   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Habitat use; Interviews; Nicaragua; Occupancy; Prey

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FELID; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

NICARAGUA;

CERVIDAE; MAZAMA AMERICANA; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA; PECARI TAJACU; TAYASSU PECARI;

EID: 84906066939     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2014.04.002     Document Type: Article

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