Sentences with phrase «wildland interior»

Proponents of TNR have argued that colony - fed sterilized cats pose little threat to native species in the adjacent wildland interior and that because sterilized cats roam less than reproductively intact cats but retain their territorial behavior (Hawkins et al. 2004; Zaunbrecher and Smith 1993), they should prevent immigration of new cats (i.e., the vacuum effect — Mahlow and Slater 1996; Neville and Remfry 1984), thereby eventually leading to population decline due to attrition.

Circles denote distances of 5 and 10 km from TNR colonies in Avalon and Two Harbors, b) Long - distance movements of 7 radiocollared cats from the wildland interior into human areas.