Disturbance Effects of Human Activities on Rangifer Tarandus Habitat: Implications for Life History and Population Dynamics

Polar Geography

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 171-186

  Weladji, Robert B ^a   Forbes, Bruce C ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HABITAT CONSERVATION;

RANGIFER; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 0042769121     PISSN: 1088937X     EISSN: 19390513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/789610191     Document Type: Article

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