Using Videography to Quantify Landscape-Level Availability of Habitat for Grazers: An Example with Emperor Geese in Western Alaska

ABSTRACT. We present a videography approach to estimating large-scale availability of grazing lawns, an important food resource used by broods of emperor geese (Chen canagica) on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, Alaska. Sampling was conducted in 1999, 2003, and 2004 at six locations that encompassed ~40 %...

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Main Authors: Bryce C. Lake, Mark S. Lindberg, Joel A. Schmutz, R. Michael Anthony, Fred J. Broerman
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
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Language:English
Published: 2005
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Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.494.7394
http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/arctic59-3-252.pdf