Habitat fragmentation, striped skunks, and waterfowl nest predation
In North America, expansion of agriculture has resulted in the fragmentation of grasslands. Consequently, waterfowl populations have declined due to predation on nests. Predation on nests is an old evolutionary force affecting waterfowl, but the recent fragmentation of grasslands may have yielded a...
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University of Saskatchewan
1998
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Online Access: | http://library.usask.ca/theses/available/etd-10212004-000859 |