How biotic interactions may alter future predictions of species distributions: Future threats to the persistence of the arctic fox in Fennoscandia

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 554-562

  Hof, Anouschka R ^a,b   Jansson, Roland ^a   Nilsson, Christer ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus; Climate change; Food availability; Lemmus lemmus; Predator prey interaction; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

BIOTIC FACTOR; CANID; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FUTURE PROSPECT; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PERSISTENCE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY AVAILABILITY; RANGE EXPANSION;

FENNOSCANDIA;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; LEMMUS LEMMUS; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84860643057     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00876.x     Document Type: Article

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