Identifying landscapes for greater prairie chicken translocation using habitat models and GIS: A case study

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-155

  Niemuth, Neal D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^b United States Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Landscape ecology; Prairie chicken; Scale; Sharp tailed grouse; Spatially explicit habitat model

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GIS; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; TRANSLOCATION;

UNITED STATES;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; PHASIANIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO; TYMPANUCHUS PHASIANELLUS;

EID: 0037800350     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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