Reconsidering the Specialist-Generalist Paradigm in Niche Breadth Dynamics: Resource Gradient Selection by Canada Lynx and Bobcat

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Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Peers, Michael J L ^a   Thornton, Daniel H ^a,b   Murray, Dennis L ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PANTHERA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ALTITUDE; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CANADA; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FELIS RUFUS; LYNX; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; WINTER;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; AREA UNDER CURVE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHY; LYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

LYNX CANADENSIS; LYNX LYNX; LYNX RUFUS;

EID: 84870912949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051488     Document Type: Article

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