Barred owl home range and habitat selection in the boreal forest of central saskatchewan

Auk

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 746-754

  Mazur, Kurt M ^a,d   Frith, Shanna D ^b   James, Paul C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b Saskatchewan Environ Rsrc Mgmt ^*  (Canada)

^c Saskatchewan Environ Rsrc Mgmt   (Canada)

^d Partners in Flight Manitoba   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING STATUS; FOREST; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; OWL;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

STRIX VARIA;

EID: 0031849343     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089422     Document Type: Article

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