Migrating Mule Deer: Effects of Anthropogenically Altered Landscapes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Lendrum, Patrick E ^a   Anderson, Charles R ^b   Monteith, Kevin L ^a,c   Jenks, Jonathan A ^d   Bowyer, R Terry ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b Mammals Research Section   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LANDSCAPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

EID: 84877765999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064548     Document Type: Article

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