Relating predation mortality to broad-scale habitat selection

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 701-707

  McLoughlin, Philip D ^a   Dunford, Jesse S ^b   Boutin, Stan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Habitat selection; Predation; Survival; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

HABITAT SELECTION; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 27644586648     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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