Effects of Landscape-Scale Environmental Variation on Greater Sage-Grouse Chick Survival

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Guttery, Michael R ^a   Dahlgren, David K ^b   Messmer, Terry A ^c   Connelly, John W ^d   Reese, Kerry P ^e   Terletzky, Pat A ^c   Burkepile, Nathan ^f   Koons, David N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Kansas Department of Wildlife & Parks   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^f Northland Fish and Game   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; CHICK; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRASS; HABITAT; HEN; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; SAGE GROUSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WINTER; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GALLIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CENTROCERCUS UROPHASIANUS; POACEAE;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DROUGHTS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GALLIFORMES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84879133953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065582     Document Type: Article

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