Inter-specific competition from fallow deer Dama dama reduces habitat quality for the Italian roe deer Capreolus capreolus italicus

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 407-417

  Focardi, Stefano ^a   Aragno, Paola ^a   Montanaro, Paolo ^a   Riga, Francesco ^a  

^a Istituto Nazionale per la Fauna Selvatica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEER; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT QUALITY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DECLINE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CASTELPORZIANO; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LAZIO; ROMA [LAZIO]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; DAMA DAMA;

EID: 33745114042     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04442.x     Document Type: Article

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