Response to agriculture by a woodland species depends on cover type and behavioural state: insights from resident and dispersing Iberian lynx

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 814-824

  Gastón, Aitor ^a   Blázquez Cabrera, Sandra ^a   Garrote, Germán ^b   Mateo Sánchez, María C ^a   Beier, Paul ^c   Simón, Miguel A ^d   Saura, Santiago ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b Agencia de Medio Ambiente y Agua de Andalucía Consejería de Agricultura Pesca y Medio Ambiente Junta de Andalucía   (Spain)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

dispersal movements; GPS collars; habitat selection; habitat suitability; home range use; human modified landscapes; landscape heterogeneity; landscape matrix permeability; mammalian carnivores; mixed effects conditional logistic regression

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOTELEMETRY; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FELID; GPS; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REINTRODUCTION; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION COVER; WOODLAND;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION; COVERING; FARM CROPS; FORESTS; LAND; MEDITERRANEAN; TYPE;

LYNX; LYNX LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84960414928     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12629     Document Type: Article

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