Predation has a greater impact in less productive environments: Variation in roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, population density across Europe

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 724-734

  Melis, Claudia ^a   Jȩdrzejewska, Bogumiła ^a   Apollonio, Marco ^b   Bartoń, Kamil A ^a   Jȩdrzejewski, Włodzimierz ^a   Linnell, John D C ^c   Kojola, Ilpo ^d   Kusak, Josip ^e   Adamic, Miha ^f   Ciuti, Simone ^b   Delehan, Ivan ^g   Dykyy, Ihor ^g   Krapinec, Krešimir ^h   Mattioli, Luca ⁱ   Sagaydak, Andrey ^g   Samchuk, Nikolay ^g   Schmidt, Krzysztof ^a   Shkvyrya, Maryna ^j   Sidorovich, Vadim E ^k   Zawadzka, Bernadetta ^a   Zhyla, Sergey ^l   more..

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^g IVAN FRANKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LVIV   (Ukraine)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

ⁱ Game Management Unit   (Italy)

^j SCHMALHAUSEN INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^k INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Belarus)

^l Poliskiy Natural Reserve vs Selezivka   (Ukraine)

more..

Author keywords

Capreolus capreolus; Forest cover; Lynx; Population density; Red deer; Roe deer; Top down control; Vegetation productivity; Winter harshness; Wolf

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST COVER; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; CERVUS ELAPHUS; LYNX; LYNX LYNX;

EID: 70350413139     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00480.x     Document Type: Article

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