Demographic balancing of migrant and resident elk in a partially migratory population through forage-predation tradeoffs

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1860-1870

  Hebblewhite, Mark ^a   Merrill, Evelyn H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEER; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MORTALITY RISK; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; PREGNANCY; SURVIVAL; TRADE-OFF; UNGULATE;

ALBERTA; BANFF NATIONAL PARK; CANADA;

EID: 82455186057     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19436.x     Document Type: Article

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