Habitat selection and productivity of least terns on the Lower Platte River, Nebraska

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 132, 1996, Pages 1-48

  Kirsch, Eileen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Fledging success; Habitat selection; Least tern; Manmade habitat; Nebraska; Nest success; Platte River; Population modeling; Productivity; Sandbar; Sterna antillarum

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; LARIDAE; RIPARIA; STERNA ANTILLARUM;

EID: 0039466419     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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