Impact of puma predation on the decline and recovery of a mule deer population in southeastern Idaho

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1555-1565

  Laundre J W ^a   Hernandez L ^a   Clark, S G ^b,c  

^a Instituto de Ecologia AC Durango   (Mexico)

^b Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^c Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; SITE SELECTION;

PREDATION RATES; PUMA NUMBERS; WINTER SNOWFALL;

ANIMALS;

CARNIVORE; CORRELATION; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 33947201576     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-150     Document Type: Article

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