Abundance and habitat associations of elf owls and western screech-owls in the Sonoran Desert

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 311-323

  Hardy, Paul C ^a,c   Morrison, Michael L ^a,d   Barry, Robert X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Luke AFB   (United States)

^c Adaptive Management Services   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA; MICRATHENE WHITNEYI; OTUS KENNICOTTII; PHALAENOPTILUS NUTTALLII; PROSOPIS;

EID: 0032822028     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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