Ecological correlates of Whooping Crane use of fire-treated upland habitats

Conservation Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 217-223

  Chavez Ramirez, Felipe ^a   Hunt, Howard E ^a,c   Slack, R Douglas ^a   Stehn, Tom V ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Aransas National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRUS AMERICANA; GRUIDAE;

ACORN; ENDANGERED BIRD; HABITAT USE; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SALTMARSH; WHOOPING CRANE;

USA, TEXAS;

EID: 0029667647     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1996.10010217.x     Document Type: Article

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