Mortality of Siberian polecats and black-footed ferrets released onto prairie dog colonies

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 721-731

  Biggins, Dean E ^a   Miller, Brian J ^a,c   Hanebury, Louis R ^a,d   Powell, Roger A ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wind River Ranch   (United States)

^d Western Area Power Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

captive breeding; Cynomys; ecological equivalent; ecological surrogate; Mustela eversmanii; Mustela nigripes; predation; reintroduction; survival; translocation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANID; CAPTIVE POPULATION; CAPTIVITY; CORRELATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FELID; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; MUSTELID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRAIRIE; REINTRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION; WILD POPULATION;

SIBERIA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LATRANS; CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA EVERSMANNII; MUSTELA NIGRIPES;

EID: 80051906353     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-S-115.1     Document Type: Article

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