Causes and rates of mortality of swift foxes in western Kansas

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1300-1306

  Sovada, Marsha A ^a   Roy, Christiane C ^b   Bright, J B ^a   Gillis, James R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis latrans; Coyote predation; Interspecific competition; Kansas mortality factors; Mortality rates; Swift fox; Vulpes velox

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; MONITORING; MORTALITY; RADIOTELEMETRY;

KANSAS; UNITED STATES;

APUS APUS; CANIDAE; CANIS LATRANS; CARNIVORA; VULPES VELOX;

EID: 0031786777     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3801994     Document Type: Article

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