Body mass and winter mortality in red deer calves: Disentangling sex and climate effects

Ecography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 20-30

  Loison, Anne ^a   Langvatn, Rolf ^a   Solberg, Erling Johan ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; MAMMAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTIODACTYLA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032990114     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.1999.tb00451.x     Document Type: Article

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