Response of an arctic predator guild to collapsing lemming cycles

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1746, 2012, Pages 4417-4422

  Schmidt, Niels M ^a   Ims, Rolf A ^b   Høye, Toke T ^a   Gilg, Olivier ^c,d   Hansen, Lars H ^a   Hansen, Jannik ^a   Lund, Magnus ^a   Fuglei, Eva ^e   Forchhammer, Mads C ^a,f   Sittler, Benoit ^d,g  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d Groupe de Recherche en Ecologie Arctique   (France)

^e NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^f Greenland Institute for Natural Resources   (Greenland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arctic; Climate change; Cyclic population dynamics; Dicrostonyx groenlandicus; Predator prey interaction

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CANID; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FLEDGING; GENERALIST; KEYSTONE SPECIES; MUSTELID; POPULATION CYCLE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; RODENT; TUNDRA;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; DICROSTONYX; DICROSTONYX GROENLANDICUS; DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; MUSTELA ERMINEA; NYCTEA;

EID: 84866872812     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1490     Document Type: Article

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