Warming, plant phenology and the spatial dimension of trophic mismatch for large herbivores

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1646, 2008, Pages 2005-2013

  Post, Eric ^a,b   Pedersen, Christian ^a   Wilmers, Christopher C ^c   Forchhammer, Mads C ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caribou; Climate change; Global warming; Life history; Plant phenology; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; DEER; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBIVORE; LIFE HISTORY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; WARMING;

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORAGING; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENLAND; HERBIVORE; LIFE HISTORY; NONHUMAN; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REINDEER; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 47249118728     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0463     Document Type: Article

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