Late seasonal breeding of river otters in Yellowstone National Park

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 189-192

  Crait, Jamie R ^a   Blundell, Gail M ^b   Ott, Kaithryn E ^a   Herreman, Jason K ^a   Ben David, Merav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; BREEDING SITE; COPULATION; HOME RANGE; MUSTELID; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WILD POPULATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE LAKE; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

CARNIVORA; LONTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS CLARKII; SALMONIDAE;

EID: 33748129973     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2006)156[189:LSBORO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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