An occupancy modeling approach to evaluating a palm springs ground squirrel habitat model

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 894-904

  Ball, Lianne C ^a   Doherty Jr , Paul F ^a,b   McDonald, Matthew W ^a,c  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

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

^c Carson National Forest   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Coachella Valley; Habitat conservation plan; Habitat model; Palm Springs ground squirrel; Patch occupancy; Spermophilus

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DUNE; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; RODENT;

NORTH AMERICA; SONORAN DESERT; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

LARREA; LARREA TRIDENTATA; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS GLANDULOSA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS TERETICAUDUS CHLORUS;

EID: 27944456453     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[0894:AOMATE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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