Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? a landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade: Reply

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1425-1431

  Kauffman, Matthew J ^a   Brodie, Jedediah F ^b   Jules, Erik S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; WOLF;

ANIMALS; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; WOLVES;

CANIDAE;

EID: 84879561359     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1404.1     Document Type: Note

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