Survival and cause-specific mortality of wild turkeys in northern Indiana

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-322

  Humberg, Lee A ^a,b   Devault, Travis L ^a,c   Rhodes Jr , Olin E ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HUNTING; ISOLATED POPULATION; JUVENILE; POULTRY; PREDATION; RADIOTELEMETRY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; WILD POPULATION;

INDIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO; MELEAGRIS GALLOPAVO SILVESTRIS;

EID: 65349171432     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-161.2.313     Document Type: Article

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