Patterns in grouse and Woodcock Scolopax rusticola hunting yields from central Norway 1901-24 do not support the alternative prey hypothesis for grouse cycles

Ibis

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 678-686

  Selås, Vidar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; GAMEBIRD; HUNTING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; SURVIVAL; SYNCHRONY; WEATHER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORD-TRONDELAG; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; MURIDAE; PHASIANIDAE; SALIX; SCOLOPAX RUSTICOLA; TETRAO UROGALLUS;

EID: 33750197215     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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