| Titre : | Nest site selection of Chinese grouse Bonasa sewerzolvi at Lianhuashan, Gansu, China |
| Auteurs : | Yue-Hua Sun, Auteur ; Yun Fang, Auteur ; Chen-Xi Jia, Auteur ; Siegfried Klaus, Auteur ; Jon E. Swenson, Auteur ; Wolfgang Scherzinger, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Wildlife Biology (13 2007) |
| Article en page(s) : | 68-72 |
| Résumé : | During 1995-2004, we studied the nest site selection of the Chinese grouse Bonasa sewerzowi at Lianhuashan, Gansu, China. Of the 103 nests that we found, 56% were at the base of deciduous trees, mainly willow Salix spp. and birch Betula utilis, and 40% were at the base of coniferous trees. The Chinese grouse favoured northern and eastern slopes with steepness of 0-45 degrees, averaging 15.5 +/- 11.2 degrees(SE; N = 97); 88% of nest sites were on slopes of |



