Surveying predicted rendezvous sites to monitor gray wolf populations

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1043-1049

  Ausband, David E ^a   Mitchell, Michael S ^a   Doherty, Kevin ^b   Zager, Peter ^c   MacK, Curt M ^d   Holyan, Jim ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^d Gray Wolf Recovery Project   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; gray wolf; monitoring; northern Rocky Mountains; rendezvous site; resource selection function; stratification

Indexed keywords

CANID; FECUNDITY; HABITAT USE; NDVI; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SAMPLING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WILD POPULATION;

IDAHO; UNITED STATES;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 77953949344     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2009-303     Document Type: Article

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