Experimental effects of hiking on breeding Mexican spotted owls

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 307-315

  Swarthout, Elliott C H ^a,b   Steidl, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; MONITORING; RAPTOR; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WALKING;

UNITED STATES;

RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS LUCIDA;

EID: 0037329479     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01420.x     Document Type: Article

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