Location and success of lesser prairie-chicken nests in relation to vegetation and human disturbance

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1259-1269

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

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

^d OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^e Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic impacts; Artemisia filifolia; Kansas; Lesser prairie chicken; Nest success; Nest vegetation; Sand sagebrush; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; GAMEBIRD; NEST SITE; NESTING SUCCESS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

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

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA FILIFOLIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS;

EID: 27944500224     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2005)069[1259:LASOLP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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