Climate-induced variation in vital rates of an unharvested large-herbivore population

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-45

  Garrott, Robert A ^a   Eberhardt, L Lee ^a   White, Patrick J ^b   Rotella, Jay ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SNOW; TELEMETERING;

ZOOLOGY;

BIOLOGY;

CLIMATE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RECRUITMENT; REPRODUCTION; SENESCENCE; SNOWPACK; SURVIVAL; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 0037499960     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z02-218     Document Type: Article

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