Predator selection of prairie landscape features and its relation to duck nest success

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 104-114

  Phillips, Michael L ^a,b   Clark, William R ^a   Sovada, Marsha A ^b   Horn, David J ^a,c   Koford, Rolf R ^a   Greenwood, Raymond J ^b  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c AURORA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Habitat selection; Landscape composition; Mephitis mephitis; Nest success; Nesting habitat; North Dakota; Prairie Pothole Region; Predation; Red fox; Striped skunk; Vulpes vulpes; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MORTALITY; NESTING SUCCESS; PREDATION; RADIOTELEMETRY; WATERFOWL;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

ANAS SP.; ANATIDAE; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0037282792     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3803066     Document Type: Article

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