Indirect effects of red imported fire ants on Attwater's prairie-chicken brood survival

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 898-906

  Morrow, Michael E ^a   Chester, Rebecca E ^a   Lehnen, Sarah E ^b   Drees, Bastiaan M ^c   Toepfer, John E ^d  

^a Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

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

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Society of Tympanuchus Cupido Pinnatus   (United States)

Author keywords

Attwater's; brood survival; fire ants; indirect effects; invertebrates; prairie chicken; Tympanuchus cupido attwateri

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; BIOMASS; BROOD SIZE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GAMEBIRD; INSECTIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; JUVENILE; LIMITING FACTOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; SURVIVAL; TAXONOMY; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

NORTH AMERICA;

INVERTEBRATA; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; TYMPANUCHUS; TYMPANUCHUS CUPIDO ATTWATERI;

EID: 84937629289     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.915     Document Type: Article

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