Habitat use by cottontail rabbits across multiple spatial scales in Mississippi

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1171-1178

  Bond, Bobby T ^a,b   Burger Jr , L Wes ^a   Leopold, Bruce D ^a   Jones, Jeanne C ^a   Godwin, K David ^a  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Georgia Dept Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Cottontail rabbit; Habitat selection; Mississippi; Spatial scale; Sylvilagus floridanus; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LAGOMORPH; LAND COVER; SCALE EFFECT;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

LAGOMORPHA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; SYLVILAGUS; SYLVILAGUS FLORIDANUS;

EID: 0036816447     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802950     Document Type: Article

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