The demographic consequences of releasing a population of red deer from culling

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 411-422

  Coulson, Tim ^a   Guinness, Fiona ^a   Pemberton, Josephine ^b   Clutton Brock, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age structure; Cervus elaphus; Cohort effects; Culling release; Density dependence; Isle of Rum; Population increase; Red deer; Scotland; Transient dynamics; Vital rates

Indexed keywords

DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HUNTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HIGHLAND; RUM; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CERVIDAE; CERVUS; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 1542319215     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0009     Document Type: Article

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