A Multi-Metric Approach to Investigate the Effects of Weather Conditions on the Demographic of a Terrestrial Mammal, the European Badger (Meles meles)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Nouvellet, Pierre ^a,b   Newman, Chris ^a   Buesching, Christina D ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BADGER; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; LIFE HISTORY; MELES MELES; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL TOLERANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; MAMMALS; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; WEATHER;

EID: 84880047707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068116     Document Type: Article

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