Gray wolves as climate change buffers in Yellowstone

PLoS Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 0571-0576

  Wilmers, Christopher C ^a   Getz, Wayne M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOOD; FOOD CHAIN; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WINTER; WOLF; ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; BOVIDS; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; LETHRINIDAE;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUMINANTS; SEASONS; WEATHER; WOLVES;

EID: 19344368124     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0030092     Document Type: Article

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