Response of mountain plovers to plague-driven dynamics of black-tailed prairie dog colonies

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 689-697

  Augustine, David J ^a   Dinsmore, Stephen J ^b   Wunder, Michael B ^c   Dreitz, Victoria J ^d   Knopf, Fritz L ^e  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Charadrius montanus; Cynomys ludovicianus; Disturbance processes; Grazing; Great Plains; Mixed prairie; Semi arid rangeland; Shortgrass steppe; Yersinia pestis

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; BREEDING SITE; COLONY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; NEST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRAIRIE; RANGELAND; RODENT; STEPPE;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CHARADRIIDAE; CHARADRIUS MONTANUS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; YERSINIA PESTIS;

EID: 46249096873     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9230-y     Document Type: Article

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