Populations and habitat relationships of Piute ground squirrels in southwestern Idaho

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 482-491

  Steenhof, Karen ^a   Yensen, Eric ^b   Kochert, Michael N ^a   Gage, Kenneth L ^c  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Albertson College   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Disease; Drought; Habitat; Piute ground squirrel; Plague; Populations; Reproduction; Sagebrush; Spermophilus mollis

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; AVES; POA; POA SECUNDA; RAPTORES; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS MOLLIS;

EID: 33846025768     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3398/1527-0904(2006)66[482:PAHROP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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