Brown bear habitat suitability in the Pyrenees: Transferability across sites and linking scales to make the most of scarce data

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 621-631

  Martin, Jodie ^a,b,c,d   Revilla, Eloy ^e   Quenette, Pierre Yves ^c   Naves, Javier ^e   Allainé, Dominique ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^f NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Attractive sink habitat; Cantabrian Mountains; Carnivore conservation; Habitat model; Nested scales; Pyrenees Mountains; Source habitat; Spatial scale; Transferability; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEAR; CONNECTIVITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT QUALITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; MANMADE STRUCTURE; PRIORITIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF; TRANSLOCATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CANTABRIAN MOUNTAINS; PYRENEES; SPAIN;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 85027920516     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02139.x     Document Type: Article

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