Past, Present and Future: Combining habitat suitability and future landcover simulation for long-term conservation management of Indian rhino

Scientific Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2020, Pages

  Mukherjee, Tanoy ^a,b   Sharma, Lalit Kumar ^a   Saha, Goutam K ^b   Thakur, Mukesh ^a   Chandra, Kailash ^a  

^a ZOOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; FOREST; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; NATIONAL PARK; SIMULATION; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INDIA; NEPAL; PERISSODACTYLA; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; GRASSLAND; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEPAL; NEURAL NETWORKS, COMPUTER; PERISSODACTYLA;

EID: 85077994147     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-57547-0     Document Type: Article

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