Reconstructing historical snow depth surfaces to evaluate changes in critical demographic rates and habitat components of snow-dependent and snow-restricted species

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 71-80

  Manning, Jeffrey A ^a   Garton, Edward O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Demography; Gulo gulo; Hindcasting; Mule deer; Odocoileus hemionus; Population regulation; Snow depth; Snow model; Wolverine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867427632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00144.x     Document Type: Article

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