Effects of Barred Owls on Spotted Owls: The need for more than incidental detections and correlational analyses

Journal of Raptor Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 319-325

  Livezey, Kent B ^a   Fleming, Tracy L ^b  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Barred Owl; Incidental data; Northern Spotted Owl; Strix occidentalis caurina; Strix varia; Survey methods

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DETECTION METHOD; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DECLINE; RAPTOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVEY;

STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS CAURINA; STRIX VARIA;

EID: 39049161913     PISSN: 08921016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3356/0892-1016(2007)41[319:EOBOOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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