Temporal patterns of juvenile body weight variability in sympatric reindeer and sheep

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 17-26

  Weladji, Robert B ^a   Steinheim, Geir ^a   Holand, Øystein ^a   Moe, Stein R ^a   Almøy, Trygve ^a   Ådnøy, Tormod ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; GROWTH; HABITAT QUALITY; SUMMER; UNGULATE; WINTER;

NORWAY;

OVIS ARIES; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037245332     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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