Survival of juvenile lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 675-681

  Pitman, James C ^a,b   Hagen, Christian A ^a,c   Jamison, Brent E ^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 OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND WILDLIFE   (United States)

^d MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (United States)

^e Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Artemisia filifolia; Chicks; Juveniles; Kansas; Lesser prairie chicken; Mortality; Radiotelemetry; Sand sagebrush; Survival; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Indexed keywords

BIRD; JUVENILE; MORTALITY; PRAIRIE; SURVIVAL;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA FILIFOLIA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PHASIANIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS;

EID: 33751220819     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[675:SOJLPI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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