Identifying and prioritizing greater sage-grouse nesting and brood-rearing habitat for conservation in human-modified landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Dzialak, Matthew R ^a   Olson, Chad V ^a   Harju, Seth M ^a   Webb, Stephen L ^a   Mudd, James P ^a   Winstead, Jeffrey B ^a   Hayden Wing, L D ^a  

^a Hayden Wing Associates LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD REARING; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HABITAT; HABITAT USE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INCUBATION TIME; LANDSCAPE; NESTING; NIGHT; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEMETRY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALIA; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DARKNESS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVIPOSITION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80054057847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026273     Document Type: Article

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