Black-footed ferret areas of activity during late summer and fall at Meeteetse, Wyoming

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 705-709

  Fagerstone, Kathleen A ^a   Biggins, Dean E ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

center of activity; dispersal; movement; Mustela nigripes; radiotelemetry

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ADULT; CAPTIVE POPULATION; COLONY STRUCTURE; DISPERSAL; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; JUVENILE; MUSTELID; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RADIOTELEMETRY; SUMMER; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

MUSTELA; MUSTELA NIGRIPES;

EID: 80051913154     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-S-140.1     Document Type: Article

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