The role of males in the dynamics of ungulate populations

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 907-915

  Mysterud, Atle ^a   Coulson, Tim ^b   Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calving dates; Calving synchrony; Demography; Log linear models; Second order processes; Sexual body size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; UNGULATE;

UNGULATA;

EID: 0036848860     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00655.x     Document Type: Review

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