Was Aldo Leopold right about the Kaibab Deer herd?

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 227-241

  Binkley, Dan ^a   Moore, Margaret M ^b   Romme, William H ^a   Brown, Peter M ^a,c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Deer population; Fire history; Grand Canyon; Irruption; Kaibab Plateau

Indexed keywords

DEER; FIRE HISTORY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATOR CONTROL; STAND STRUCTURE;

KAIBAB PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 33645334954     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0100-z     Document Type: Article

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