Density dependence in northern ungulates: Interactions with predation and resources

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-132

  Wang, Guiming ^a   Hobbs, N Thompson ^b   Twombly, Saran ^c,g   Boone, Randall B ^b   Illius, Andrew W ^d   Gordon, Iain J ^e   Gross, John E ^f  

^a MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

^f NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^g NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Gompertz model; Kalman filter; Large carnivores; Local environmental variability; Predation; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HETEROGENEITY; KALMAN FILTER; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; UNGULATE;

ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 58149191579     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-008-0095-3     Document Type: Article

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