Radiotelemetry survival estimates of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas: Are there transmitter biases?

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1064-1069

  Hagen, Christian A ^a,c   Sandercock, Brett K ^a   Pitman, James C ^a,b   Robel, Robert J ^a   Applegate, Roger D ^b,d  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

^d Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Kansas; Lesser prairie chicken; Live recapture dead recovery models; Necklace; Radiotelemetry; Right censoring; Transmitter; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Indexed keywords

BIRD; PRAIRIE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SURVIVAL;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS;

EID: 33845925597     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[1064:RSEOLP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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