Are goose nesting success and lemming cycles linked? Interplay between nest density and predators

Oikos

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 388-400

  Bêty, Joël ^a   Gauthier, Gilles ^a   Giroux, Jean François ^b   Korpimäki, Erkki ^c  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEST PREDATION; NESTING SUCCESS; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; CANADA;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANAS; ANSER; ANSER CAERULESCENS; ANSER CAERULESCENS ATLANTICUS; ANSER SP.; ATLANTICUS; AVES; CANIDAE; CHEN; GALLIFORMES; LAGOPUS; NYCTEA SCANDIACA; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 0034941589     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.930304.x     Document Type: Article

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