Social and demographic effects of Anthropogenic mortality: A test of the compensatory mortality hypothesis in the red wolf

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Sparkman, Amanda M ^a   Waits, Lisette P ^b   Murray, Dennis L ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING SUCCESS; CANIS RUFUS; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION REGULATION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES REINTRODUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WOLF; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS RUFUS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WOLVES;

EID: 79959563387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020868     Document Type: Article

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