Shifts in dominant nest predators along a rural-to-urban landscape gradient

Condor

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 899-906

  Rodewald, Amanda D ^a   Kearns, Laura J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Diversity; Landscape; Mammal; Mesopredator; Nest; Predator; Urban; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455259520     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2011.100132     Document Type: Conference Paper

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