Abundance and density of mountain plover (charadrius montanus) and burrowing owl (athene cunicularia) in eastern colorado

Auk

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 493-499

  Tipton, Heather C ^a,c   Doherty Jr , Paul F ^a   Dreitz, Victoria J ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Athene cunicularia; Burrowing Owl; Charadrius montanus; Double observer methods; Mountain Plover; Shortgrass prairie

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; NATURE CONSERVATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRAIRIE; RAPTOR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WADER;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

ATHENE; ATHENE CUNICULARIA; AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CHARADRIUS MONTANUS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; SPEOTYTO CUNICULARIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 73349126416     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2009.07172     Document Type: Article

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