What determines variation in home range size across spatiotemporal scales in a large browsing herbivore?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 771-785

  Van Beest, Floris M ^a,b   Rivrud, Inger M ^b   Loe, Leif E ^b,c   Milner, Jos M ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^b  

^a INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate; Forage availability; Movement; Reproduction; Scale dependence; Supplementary feeding

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROWSING; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEER; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FORAGE; HERBIVORE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RANGE SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; THERMOREGULATION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DEER; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE; DEER; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NORWAY; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

NORWAY;

ALCES ALCES;

EID: 79958055526     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01829.x     Document Type: Article

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