Developing the concept of estimating bobwhite density with pointing dogs

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1175-1180

  Guthery, Fred S ^a   Mecozzi, Grant E ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird dogs; Colinus virginianus; Density estimation; Distance sampling theory; Effective strip width; Global positioning system; Northern bobwhite; Oklahoma; Program distance; Texas

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; GPS; HUNTING; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; TESTING METHOD;

NORTH AMERICA; OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 48249119596     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-379     Document Type: Article

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