Multiscale habitat selection by burrowing owls in black-tailed prairie dog colonies

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2664-2672

  Lantz, Sarah J ^a,c   Conway, Courtney J ^b   Anderson, Stanley H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Athene cunicularia; Black tailed prairie dog; Burrowing owl; Cynomys ludovicianus; Great Plains; Habitat selection model; Information theoretic; Logistic regression; Model accuracy; Wyoming

Indexed keywords

BURROWING; CANID; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; HABITAT QUALITY; NEST SITE; POPULATION DECLINE; PRAIRIE; RAPTOR; SITE SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ATHENE; ATHENE CUNICULARIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 42149083451     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-221     Document Type: Article

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