Predator activity related to landscape features in northern Iowa

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1224-1234

  Kuehl, Aaron K ^a,b   Clark, William R ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pheasants Forever   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike weights; Corn Belt; Habitat fragmentation; Iowa; Isolation; Mephitis mephitis; Predation; Procyon lotor; Raccoon; Red fox; Striped skunk; Track stations; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; LANDSCAPE; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

IOWA; UNITED STATES;

ANAS; ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; ANSER; AVES; CANIDAE; CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; VULPES; VULPES VULPES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036816024     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802955     Document Type: Article

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