Lesser Prairie-Chicken Hen and Brood Habitat Use on Sand Shinnery Oak
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Lesser Prairie-Chicken Hen and Brood Habitat Use on Sand Shinnery Oak
The structural attributes of shrubland communities may provide thermal refugia and protective cover necessary for wild animals to survive. During the summers of 2002 and 2003, we evaluated the thermal environment for lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus Ridgway) broods in southeast New Mexico across a complex landscape that included grazed sand shinnery oak (Quercus havardii Rydb....
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عنوان ژورنال: Rangeland Ecology & Management
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1550-7424
DOI: 10.2111/08-245.1