Confounded winter and spring phenoclimatology on large herbivore ranges

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 427-437

  Christianson, David ^a   Klaver, Robert W ^b   Middleton, Arthur ^c   Kauffman, Matthew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b United Nations Environment Programme   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Elk; Green up; Normalized difference vegetation index; Phenology; Snow; Spring; Winter

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORE; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WINTER;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CERVUS ELAPHUS;

EID: 84874985276     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9840-2     Document Type: Article

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