Chapter 3: At-sea monitoring of Marbled Murrelet population status trend in the Northwest Forest Plan area

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW

Volumn , Issue 650, 2006, Pages 31-60

  Miller, Sherri L ^a   Ralph, C John ^a   Raphael, Martin G ^b   Strong, Craig ^c   Thompson, Christopher W ^d,e   Baldwin, Jim ^a   Huff, Mark H ^f   Falxa, Gary A ^g  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Crescent Coastal Research   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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

^g U S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; MONITORING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; ZONATION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BRACHYRAMPHUS MARMORATUS;

EID: 33748791200     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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