Advancing breeding phenology in response to environmental change in a wild red deer population

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2455-2469

  Moyes, Kelly ^a,d   Nussey, Daniel H ^b   Clements, Michelle N ^b   Guinness, Fiona E ^a   Morris, Alison ^b   Morris, Sean ^c   Pemberton, Josephine M ^b   Kruuk, Loeske E B ^b   Clutton Brock, Tim H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c SCOTTISH NATURAL HERITAGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Wild Frontier Ecology Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate warming; Demography; Mammal; Phenology; Plant growth; Reproductive fitness; Sexual selection; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GROWTH RESPONSE; PHENOLOGY; PLANT; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RUTTING; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING;

HEBRIDES; HIGHLAND; INNER HEBRIDES; RUM; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AVES; CERVUS ELAPHUS; MAMMALIA; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957859816     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02382.x     Document Type: Article

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