Gender identification and growth of juvenile Lesser Prairie-Chickens

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 87-96

  Pitman, James C ^a,c   Hagen, Christian A ^a   Robel, Robert J ^a   Loughin, Thomas M ^a   Applegate, Roger D ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

^c Indiana Division of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

Author keywords

Foot length; Growth rate; Lesser Prairie Chicken; Mass; Tarsometatarsus length; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; Wing length

Indexed keywords

GALLUS GALLUS; PHASIANIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS;

EID: 13844276901     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7537     Document Type: Article

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