Annual survival and population estimates of Mountain Plovers in southern Phillips County, Montana

Ecological Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1013-1026

  Dinsmore, Stephen J ^a,c   White, Gary C ^a   Knopf, Fritz L ^b,d  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Charadrius montanus; Conservation; Demography; Montana; Mountain Plover; Population size; Robust design; Survival

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; DEMOGRAPHY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; SEABIRD; SURVIVAL;

PHILLIPS COUNTY [MONTANA];

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CHARADRIUS; CHARADRIUS MONTANUS; CICONIIFORMES; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0346899493     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/01-5311     Document Type: Article

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