Temporal variation in density dependent body growth of a large herbivore

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 421-427

  Mobæk, Ragnhild ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^b   Holand, Oystein ^c   Austrheim, Gunnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ANNUAL VARIATION; BODY MASS; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORE; POPULATION DENSITY; SHEEP; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84874330273     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20888.x     Document Type: Article

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