Point counts underestimate the importance of arctic foxes as avian nest predators: Evidence from remote video cameras in Arctic Alaskan oil fields

Arctic

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 153-161

  Liebezeit, Joseph R ^a   Zack, Steve ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic Alaska; Kuparuk; Nest predation; Nest predators; Oil fields; Passerines; Prudhoe Bay; Shorebirds; Video camera

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; BREEDING SEASON; CANID; ESTIMATION METHOD; NEST PREDATION; OIL FIELD; PASSERINE; PREDATION RISK; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES RICHNESS; SURVIVORSHIP; VIDEOGRAPHY; WADER;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; PRUDHOE BAY; UNITED STATES;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; AVES; LARUS HYPERBOREUS; PASSERIFORMES; STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS;

EID: 46749093364     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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