Effect of enhanced nutrition on mule deer population rate of change

Wildlife Monographs

Volumn , Issue 172, 2009, Pages 1-28

  Bishop, Chad J ^a   White, Gary C ^b   Freddy, David J ^a   Watkins, Bruce E ^a   Stephenson, Thomas R ^c  

^a Colorado Division of Wildlife ^*  (United States)

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

^c CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Colorado; Compensatory mortality; Fecundity; Food limitation; Habitat quality; Lambda; Life table response experiment; Mule deer; Nutrition; Odocoileus hemionus; Predation; Survival

Indexed keywords

CANIS LATRANS; CERVIDAE; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS OSTEOSPERMA; ODOCOILEUS; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PINUS EDULIS; PUMA CONCOLOR;

EID: 67650792412     PISSN: 00840173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-107     Document Type: Article

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