Harvest, survival, and abundance of midcontinent lesser snow geese relative to population reduction efforts

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 179, 2011, Pages 1-42

  Alisauskas, Ray T ^a   Rockwell, Robert F ^b   Dufour, Kevin W ^a   Cooch, Evan G ^c   Zimmerman, Guthrie ^d   Drake, Kiel L ^e   Leafloor, James O ^a   Moser, Timothy J ^f   Reed, Eric T ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^e Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

^f US Fish and Wildlife Service   (United States)

Author keywords

arctic ecosystems; band recovery models; harvest management; midcontinent lesser snow geese; population dynamics; population growth; Ross's geese; survival

Indexed keywords

EID: 80055008541     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1002/wmon.5     Document Type: Article

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