Climate change in Norway: Warm summers limit grouse reproduction

Population Ecology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 361-371

  Selås, Vidar ^a   Sonerud, Geir A ^a   Framstad, Erik ^b   Kålås, John Atle ^b   Kobro, Sverre ^c   Pedersen, Helge B ^d   Spidsø, Tor K ^e   Wiig, Øystein ^f  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d The Norwegian Association of Hunters and Anglers Akershus   (Norway)

^e NORD UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Food quality; Herbivore performance; Plant stress; Tetraonids; Vole cycles

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL DEFENSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FOOD QUALITY; GAMEBIRD; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RODENT; SHRUB; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

NORWAY;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; EULITHIS; LAGOPUS LAGOPUS; LEPIDOPTERA; MURIDAE; SALIX; TETRAO TETRIX; TETRAO UROGALLUS; TETRAONIDAE; VACCINIUM MYRTILLUS;

EID: 79551547451     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-010-0255-0     Document Type: Article

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