Evaluating landscape options for corridor restoration between giant panda reserves

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Fang ^a,b   McShea, William J ^a   Wang, Dajun ^b   Li, Sheng ^b   Zhao, Qing ^c   Wang, Hao ^b   Lu, Zhi ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AILUROPODA; ARTICLE; BAMBOO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE; MOVEMENT CORRIDOR; NONHUMAN; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; BEAR; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; URSIDAE;

EID: 84927771132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105086     Document Type: Article

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