Evaluation of a black-footed ferret resource utilization function model

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1155-1163

  Eads, David A ^a,d   Millspaugh, Joshua J ^a   Biggins, Dean E ^b   Jachowski, David S ^a   Livieri, Travis M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c Prairie Wildlife Research Colorado   (United States)

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

Author keywords

black footed ferret; Cynomys; evaluation; Mustela nigripes; prairie dog; resource selection; resource utilization function; South Dakota; utilization distribution; validation

Indexed keywords

COLONY FOUNDING; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DECISION MAKING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MUSTELID; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; RESOURCE SELECTION; RESOURCE USE; RODENT; SPOTLIGHT SURVEY;

CONATA BASIN; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA NIGRIPES;

EID: 79959694220     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.130     Document Type: Article

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