Lesser prairie-chicken hen and brood habitat use on sand shinnery oak

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 478-486

  Bell, Luke A ^a   Fuhlendorf, Samuel D ^a   Patten, Michael A ^b   Wolfe, Donald H ^b   Sherrod, Steve K ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

lesser prairie chicken; sand shinnery oak; tebuthiuron

Indexed keywords

BROOD SIZE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DOMINANCE; DUNE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GRASS; HABITAT USE; HERBICIDE; LANDSCAPE; NATIVE SPECIES; POULTRY; PRAIRIE; SHRUBLAND; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77954705063     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/08-245.1     Document Type: Article

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