Modeling the movements of cowbirds: Application towards management at the landscape scale

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 111-131

  Harper, Steven J ^a   Westervelt, James D ^b   Shapiro, Ann Marie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Brown headed cowbird; Conservation management; Control program; Endangered species; Geographic information system; Gis; Individual based model; Landscape ecology; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646161857     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2002.tb00082.x     Document Type: Article

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