Lessons from integrating behaviour and resource selection: activity-specific responses of African wild dogs to roads

Animal Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 247-255

  Abrahms, B ^a   Jordan, N R ^b,c,d   Golabek, K A ^d,e   McNutt, J W ^d   Wilson, A M ^f   Brashares, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c TARONGA CONSERVATION SOCIETY AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d BOTSWANA PREDATOR CONSERVATION TRUST   (Botswana)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animal behaviour; conservation planning; landscape permeability; linear features; Lycaon pictus; movement ecology; resource selection; step selection functions

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CANID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GPS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RESOURCE SELECTION; TRACKING; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

BOTSWANA;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 84941756606     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acv.12235     Document Type: Article

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