Lesser prairie-chicken brood habitat in sand sagebrush: Invertebrate biomass and vegetation

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1080-1091

  Hagen, Christian A ^a,b   Salter, G Curran ^a,c,g   Pitman, James C ^a,d   Robel, Robert J ^a   Applegate, Roger D ^e,f  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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

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

^f Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency   (United States)

^g USDA Wildlife Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrididae; Artemisia filifolia; Habitat use; Invertebrate biomass; Kansas; Lesser prairie chicken; Sand sagebrush; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ACRIDIDAE; ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA FILIFOLIA; INVERTEBRATA; PHASIANIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS;

EID: 30344459424     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2005)33[1080:LPBHIS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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