Habitat-population density relationships for white-tailed deer in Illinois

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 252-258

  Roseberry, John L ^a,b,c,d   Woolf, Alan ^a,e,f,g  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c School of Dental Medicine   (India)

^d Wildlife Society

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology

^f Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences

^g Colorado State University ^*

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Habitat; Habitat modeling; Illinois; Odocoileus virginianus; Population density; Remote sensing; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; UNGULATE;

UNITED STATES;

ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0031730846     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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