Do different sheep breeds show equal responses to climate fluctuations?

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 137-145

  Nielsen, Anders ^a   Steinheim, Geir ^b   Mysterud, Atle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Domestic sheep; Hierarchical path modelling; NAO; NDVI; Ungulate; Varying intercept and varying slope models

Indexed keywords

OVIS ARIES; UNGULATA;

EID: 84875393443     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.12.005     Document Type: Article

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