Winter severity limits red fox populations in Eurasia

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 281-289

  Bartoń, Kamil A ^a   Zalewski, Andrzej ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Environmental conditions; FPAR; Population density; Population limitation; Seasonality; Vulpes vulpes; Winter severity

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; MAMMAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONALITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

EURASIA;

VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 34247263905     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00299.x     Document Type: Article

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