The influence of fine-scale habitat features on regional variation in population performance of alpine White-tailed Ptarmigan

Condor

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 306-315

  Fedy, Bradley ^a   Martin, Kathy ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alpine; Fragmentation; Grouse; Habitat use; Lagopus leucura; Metapopulation; Resource selection; White tailed ptarmigan

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LAGOPUS; LAGOPUS LEUCURUS; TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 79959357497     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2011.100070     Document Type: Article

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