Using GIS to guide field surveys for timberline sparrows in nothwestern Montana

Northwest Science

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-63

  Griffin, Suzanne C ^a,b   Walker, Brett L ^a   Hart, Melissa M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FIELD SURVEY; GIS; PASSERINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

UNITED STATES;

AVES; JONES; PASSERI; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES; SPIZELLA TAVERNERI;

EID: 0037412307     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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