Causes and patterns of mortality in lesser prairie-chickens Tympanuchus pallidicinctus and implications for management

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 13, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2007, Pages 95-104

  Wolfe, Donald H ^a   Patten, Michael A ^a   Shochat, Eyal ^a,b   Pruett, Christin L ^a   Sherrod, Steve K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collisions; Grouse management; Lesser prairie chicken; Mortality; Predation; Survival; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus

Indexed keywords

AVES; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; TETRAONIDAE; TYMPANUCHUS; TYMPANUCHUS PALLIDICINCTUS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 34548046226     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[95:CAPOMI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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