Managing multiple vital rates to maximize greater sage-grouse population growth

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 336-347

  Taylor, Rebecca L ^a,b   Walker, Brett L ^a,c   Naugle, David E ^a   Mills, L Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Wildlife Health Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrocercus urophasianus; demography; greater sage grouse; life stage simulation analysis; nest success; population growth; process variance; sagebrush; sensitivity; survival

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BROOD REARING; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAMEBIRD; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; GRASS; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT RESTORATION; JUVENILE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MORTALITY; NEST PREDATION; NESTING SUCCESS; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SHRUB; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; AVES; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS;

EID: 84856094544     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.267     Document Type: Review

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