Effects of drought and prolonged winter on Townsend's ground squirrel demography in shrubsteppe habitats

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 295-315

  Van Horne, Beatrice ^a   Olson, Gail S ^a   Schooley, Robert L ^a   Corn, Janelle G ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Body composition; Body mass; Density estimation; Drought; Ecological crunch; Fecundity; Fire; Ground squirrels; Hibernation; Shrubsteppe; Spermophilus townsendii; Survival rates

Indexed keywords

SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDII;

DEMOGRAPHY; DROUGHT; SURVIVAL; TOWNSEND'S GROUND SQUIRREL; WINTER;

USA, IDAHO, SNAKE RIVER BIRDS OF PREY NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA;

EID: 0031284507     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(1997)067[0295:EODAPW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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