Winter habitat selection by white-tailed deer on Anticosti Island 2: Relationship between deer density from an aerial survey and the proportion of balsam fir forest on vegetation maps

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 671-676

  Potvin, François ^a   Boots, Barry ^b  

^a Soc la Faune et des Parcs du Que   (Canada)

^b WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

FOREST VEGETATION; WINTER HABITAT;

OCEAN HABITATS;

AERIAL SURVEY; HABITAT SELECTION; MAPPING; POPULATION DENSITY; WINTER;

ANTICOSTI ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; QUEBEC;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 4043143586     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z04-028     Document Type: Review

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