Ecology and habitat selection of a woodland caribou population in west-central Manitoba, Canada

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 571-588

  Metsaranta, Juha M ^a,b   Mallory, Frank F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PICEA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 38349088443     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2007)14[571:EAHSOA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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