Effect of Sub-Polar Gyre, North Atlantic Oscillation and ambient temperature on size and abundance in the Icelandic Arctic fox

Global Change Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1423-1433

  Hersteinsson, Pall ^a   Yom Tov, Yoram ^b   Geffen, Eli ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arctic fox; Body size; Global change; Iceland; NAO; Sub Polar Gyre; Vulpes lagopus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; GYRE; LIFE HISTORY; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PREY PREFERENCE; SUMMER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CANIDAE; VERTEBRATA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 65549122078     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01765.x     Document Type: Article

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