Landscape composition influences roe deer habitat selection at both home range and landscape scales

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 999-1010

  Morellet, Nicolas ^a   van Moorter, Bram ^d   Cargnelutti, Bruno ^a   Angibault, Jean Marc ^a   Lourtet, Bruno ^a   Merlet, Joël ^a   Ladet, Sylvie ^b,c   Hewison, A J Mark ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b UMR 1201 Dynafor   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Behavioural plasticity; Functional response; Substitutable resource; Ungulates; Woodland fragmentation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DEER; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; GLOBAL CHANGE; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HEDGEROW; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WOODLAND;

CAPREOLUS; CAPREOLUS CAPREOLUS; CERVIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 79960158959     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9624-0     Document Type: Article

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