Habitat selection in a changing environment: The relationship between habitat alteration and spotted owl territory occupancy and breeding dispersal

Condor

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 566-576

  Seamans, Mark E ^a   Gutierrez R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding dispersal; Habitat alteration; Habitat selection; Occupancy; Spotted Owl; Strix occidentalis

Indexed keywords

AVES; CONIFEROPHYTA; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 34548414022     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/8352.1     Document Type: Article

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