Variation in brood sex ratios of Texas Rio Grande wild turkeys

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1793-1799

  Collier, Bret A ^a   Melton, Kyle B ^a   Dreibelbis, Justin Z ^a   Kuvlesky, William P ^b   Proudfoot, Glenn A ^c   Aguirre, Ray ^d   Hewitt, David G ^b   Schwertner, T W ^d   Demaso, Stephen J ^e   Silvy, Nova J ^a   Peterson, Markus J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

^c VASSAR COLLEGE   (United States)

^d TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^e Texas Parks and Wildlife Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Brood; Eggs; Meleagris gallopavo intermedia; Population decline; Rio Grande wild turkey; Sex ratio; Texas

Indexed keywords

EGGSHELL; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

EDWARDS PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH TEXAS PLAINS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO INTERMEDIA;

EID: 48249145134     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-487     Document Type: Article

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