Factors influencing counts in an annual survey of snail kites in Florida

Auk

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 316-323

  Bennetts, Robert E ^a,b   Link, William A ^c   Sauer, John R ^c   Sykes Jr , Paul W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^c PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLLUSC; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FLORIDA; UNITED STATES;

GASTROPODA; ROSTRHAMUS SOCIABILIS;

EID: 0032892899     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089366     Document Type: Article

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