An assessment of microhabitat variables and capture success of striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis)

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1068-1076

  Baldwin, Roger A ^a,d   Houston, Allan E ^b   Kennedy, Michael L ^a   Liu, Pin Shuo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b TN Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalist; Habitat partitioning; Kriging; Logistic regression; Mephitis mephitis; Mesopredator; Microhabitat; Semivariance; Striped skunk; Western Tennessee

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MICROHABITAT; MUSTELID; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CARNIVORA; MEPHITIDAE; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS;

EID: 11144234918     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/BWG-207.1     Document Type: Article

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