Chapter 8 Elk Winter Resource Selection in a Severe Snow Pack Environment

Terrestrial Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2008, Pages 137-156

  Messer, Mathew A ^a   Garrott, Robert A ^a   Cherry, Steve ^a   White, P J ^b   Watson, Fred G R ^c   Meredith, Eric ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YELLOWSTONE CENTER FOR RESOURCES   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 55749090359     PISSN: 19367961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1936-7961(08)00208-X     Document Type: Review

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