Predator-driven component Allee effects in a wild ungulate

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 358-363

  Bourbeau Lemieux, Aurélie ^a,b   Festa Bianchet, Marco ^a,b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^c   Pelletier, Fanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Allee effect; Bighorn sheep; Population dynamics; Predation; Risk effect; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTINCTION RISK; FELID; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RISK FACTOR; SHEEP; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PUMA; SHEEP;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PUMA; SHEEP, BIGHORN;

OVIS ARIES; OVIS CANADENSIS; PUMA CONCOLOR; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952525141     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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