The impact of climate change on patterns of zoogeomorphological influence: Examples from the Rocky Mountains of the Western U.S.A.

Geomorphology

Volumn 157-158, Issue , 2012, Pages 183-191

  Butler, David R ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beaver; Climate change; Glacier National Park; Grizzly bear; Montana; Pika; Rocky Mountains; Zoogeomorphology

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BURROWING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MEADOW;

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [MONTANA]; MONTANA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; OCHOTONIDAE; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84860920149     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.10.019     Document Type: Article

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