From migration to nomadism: Movement variability in a northern ungulate across its latitudinal range

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2007-2020

  Singh, Navinder J ^a   Börger, Luca ^b   Dettki, Holger ^a   Bunnefeld, Nils ^c   Ericsson, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Animal movement; Distance; Duration; Migration; Moose; Net squared displacement; Nomadism; Partial migration; Snow; Timing; Ungulates

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MIGRATORY POPULATION; MOVEMENT; NOMADIC PEOPLE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNGULATE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SWEDEN; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NORWAY; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS;

ALCES ALCES; ANIMALIA; UNGULATA;

EID: 84868556028     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0245.1     Document Type: Article

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