Are inland wolf-ungulate systems influenced by marine subsidies of Pacific salmon?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 251-262

  Adams, Layne G ^a   Farley, Sean D ^b   Stricker, Craig A ^c   Demma, Dominic J ^a,b   Roffler, Gretchen H ^a   Miller, Dennis C ^d   Rye, Robert O ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Caribou Air Service   (United States)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Alaska; Allochthonous subsidies; Apparent competition; Canis lupus; Denali national park and preserve; Marine derived nutrients; Oncorhynchus spp.; Pacific salmon; Predator prey relations; Ungulates; USA; Wolves

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CANID; CARBON ISOTOPE; COLLAGEN; DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD WEB; NATIONAL PARK; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SALMONID; SPAWNING POPULATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; ONCORHYNCHUS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; TIME; UNITED STATES; WOLF;

ALASKA; ANIMALS; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; ONCORHYNCHUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS; WOLVES;

ALASKA; DENALI NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; ONCORHYNCHUS; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; ONCORHYNCUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 77649163381     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1437.1     Document Type: Article

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