From venison to beef: Seasonal changes in wolf diet composition in a livestock grazing landscape

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 440-445

  Morehouse, Andrea T ^a   Boyce, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; CATTLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DIET; GPS; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RANCHING; SANITATION; SCAVENGER; SEASONAL VARIATION; TELEMETRY; UNGULATE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WILD POPULATION;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

BOS; CANIDAE; UNGULATA;

EID: 80053490201     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/100172     Document Type: Article

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