Limits to plasticity in gray wolf, Canis lupus, pack structure: Conservation implications for recovering populations

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 419-423

  Gehring, Thomas M ^a   Kohn, Bruce E ^b   Gehring, Joelle L ^a   Anderson, Eric M ^c  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Canis lupus; Disease; Edge effects; Gray Wolf; Minnesota; Mortality; Radio telemetry; Recovering populations; Social structure; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

CANID; PLASTICITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 3543120726     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v117i3.744     Document Type: Article

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