Interacting effect of wolves and climate on recruitment in a northern mountain caribou population

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1453-1461

  Hegel, Troy M ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^a   Huettmann, Falk ^b   Stenseth, Nils Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEER; DISPERSAL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGE; HERBIVORE; LACTATION; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REMOVAL EXPERIMENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CANADA; YUKON TERRITORY;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; UNGULATA;

EID: 77955998864     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18358.x     Document Type: Article

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