Predation on artificial nests of Northern Bobwhites, Colinus virginianus, by mammalian mesopredators: Does the problem-individual paradigm fit?

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 452-456

  Jennings, J B ^a,d   Kennedy, M L ^a   Houston, A E ^b   Carver, B D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b TN Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^c Freed Hardeman University   (United States)

^d Southwest Tennessee Community College   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial nests; Colinus virginianus; Didelphis virginiana; Mephitis mephitis; Northern Bobwhites; Predation; Problem individuals; Procyon lotor; Raccoons; Striped skunks; Tennessee; Virginia opossums

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEST; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GAMEBIRD; MAMMAL; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARADIGM SHIFT; PREDATION;

NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARNIVORA; COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS; DIDELPHIDAE; DIDELPHIS VIRGINIANA; MAMMALIA; MEPHITIS; MEPHITIS MEPHITIS; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 41349089350     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v120i4.354     Document Type: Article

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