Habitat associations and population trends of two hawks in an urbanizing grassland region in Colorado

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 469-478

  Schmidt, Eric ^a   Bock, Carl E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Buteo; Exurbanization; Grasslands; Hawks; Open space; Population trends; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; URBANIZATION;

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

ACCIPITRINAE; AVES; BUTEO; BUTEO JAMAICENSIS; BUTEO LAGOPUS;

EID: 26244436685     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-004-3169-4     Document Type: Article

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