Home range, habitat selection, and movements of California Black Rails at tidal marshes at San Francisco Bay, California

Condor

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-610

  Tsao, Danika C ^a,c   Takekawa, John Y ^a   Woo, Isa ^a   Yee, Julie L ^a   Evens, Jules G ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Avocet Research Associates   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Black Rail; Habitat selection; Laterallus jamaicensis coturniculus; Radio telemetry; San Francisco Bay; Tidal marsh

Indexed keywords

BOLBOSCHOENUS MARITIMUS; DISTICHLIS SPICATA; LATERALLUS; LATERALLUS JAMAICENSIS COTURNICULUS; SALICORNIA; SARCOCORNIA PACIFICA;

EID: 77249176698     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2009.090004     Document Type: Article

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