Are responses of herbivores to environmental variability spatially consistent in alpine ecosystems?

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3050-3062

  Nielsen, Anders ^a   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^b   Steinheim, Geir ^c   Storvik, Geir O ^a   Rekdal, Yngve ^d   Angeloff, Michael ^d   Pettorelli, Nathalie ^e   Holand, Øystein ^c   Mysterud, Atle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Domestic sheep; Hierarchical path modelling; Local and global climate; NAO; NDVI; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; CLIMATE VARIATION; HERBIVORE; NDVI; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; SHEEP; SPATIAL VARIATION;

NORWAY;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 84865860317     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02733.x     Document Type: Article

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