Population cycles and changes in body size of the lynx in Alaska

Oecologia

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 239-244

  Yom Tov, Yoram ^a   Yom Tov, Shlomith ^a   MacDonald, Dusty ^b   Yom Tov, Elad ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA MUSEUM   (United States)

^c IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alaska; Body size; Density dependence; Lynx; Lynx canadensis; Population cycles

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BOREAL FOREST; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FELID; FOOD SUPPLY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MAMMAL; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SKULL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LYNX; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; LYNX; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUKON TERRITORY;

LEPUS AMERICANUS; LYNX; LYNX CANADENSIS; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 34248151428     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0653-3     Document Type: Article

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