Dynamics of breeding-season site occupancy of the California Spotted Owl in burned forests

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 792-802

  Lee, Derek E ^a,b   Bond, Monica L ^a   Siegel, Rodney B ^a  

^a Institute for Bird Populations   (United States)

^b Wild Nature Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

California Spotted Owl; Colonization; Extinction; Occupancy; Site occupancy modeling; Strix occidentalis

Indexed keywords

STRIGIFORMES; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS; STRIX OCCIDENTALIS OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 84870477955     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110147     Document Type: Article

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