Predator disease out-break modulates top-down, bottom-up and climatic effects on herbivore population dynamics

Ecology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 383-389

  Wilmers, Christopher C ^a,c   Post, Eric ^a   Peterson, Rolf O ^b   Vucetich, John A ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alces alces; Alternate state; Canine parvovirus; Canis lupus; Climate change; Food chain; Isle Royale; Moose; Trophic cascade; Wolves

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DEER; EPIDEMIC; FOOD CHAIN; MORTALITY; PARVOVIRUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WOLF;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DEER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOD CHAIN; PARVOVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PARVOVIRUS, CANINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WOLVES;

ISLE ROYALE; MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALCES ALCES; CANIDAE; CANINE PARVOVIRUS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; PARVOVIRUS;

EID: 33645341950     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00890.x     Document Type: Article

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