Managing a subsidized predator population: Reducing common raven predation on desert tortoises

Environmental Management

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 205-217

  Boarman, William I ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Endangered species management; Subsidized predators; Vertebrate pests

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; ECOLOGY; NATURAL RESOURCES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ENDANGERED SPECIES MANAGEMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; PREDATOR POPULATION; SUBSIDIZED PREDATORS; VERTEBRATE PESTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

DESERT; PEST CONTROL; PREDATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY; RAVEN; RESEARCH; SPECIES; TURTLE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; DESERT CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVUS CORAX; GOPHERUS AGASSIZII; TESTUDINES; TESTUDINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TURTLES;

EID: 1342327476     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-2982-x     Document Type: Article

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