Survival and cause-specific mortality of a protected population of river otters in Minnesota

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 98-109

  Gorman, Thomas A ^a,c   McMillan, Brock R ^a   Erb, John D ^b   Deperno, Christopher S ^b,d   Martin, Daniel J ^a,e  

^a MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MORTALITY; MUSTELID; POPULATION GROWTH; SURVIVAL; WATERSHED;

MINNESOTA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CARNIVORA; LONTRA CANADENSIS; LUTRA CANADENSIS;

EID: 39549083249     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2008)159[98:SACMOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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