Rio Grande Wild Turkey habitat selection in the Southern Great Plains

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2583-2591

  Hall, Galon I ^a,d   Wallace, Mark C ^a   Ballard, Warren B ^a   Ruthven III, Donald C ^b   Butler, Matthew J ^a   Houchin, Rachael L ^a,e   Huffman, Ross T ^a,f   Phillips, Richard S ^a   Applegate, Roger ^c,g  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^c Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

^d Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ^*  (United States)

^g TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle grazing; Habitat use; Meleagris gallopavo intermedia; Nesting ecology; Rio Grande wild turkey

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RIPARIAN ZONE; VEGETATION COVER;

GREAT PLAINS; KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BOS; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO INTERMEDIA;

EID: 48249145362     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-248     Document Type: Article

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