Landscape analysis of adult Florida panther habitat

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Frakes, Robert A ^a   Belden, Robert C ^c   Wood, Barry E ^a   James, Frederick E ^b  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BREEDING METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; HYDROLOGY; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SEA LEVEL RISE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; ANIMAL; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PANTHERA; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PANTHERA; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84941774760     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133044     Document Type: Article

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