Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations

Nature

Volumn 415, Issue 6872, 2002, Pages 633-637

  Clutton Brock, T H ^a   Coulson, T N ^a   Milner Guiland, E J ^a   Thomson, D ^a   Armstrong, H M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; MANAGEMENT; POPULATION STATISTICS;

MORTALITY;

EARTH SCIENCES;

DEER; EMIGRATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AGE; ARTICLE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY; FOOD INTAKE; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; DEER; ECOLOGY; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LONGEVITY; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; SCOTLAND; SEX RATIO; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0037034003     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/415633a     Document Type: Article

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