Demographic response of tundra small mammals to a snow fencing experiment

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1167-1176

  Bilodeau, Frederic ^a   Reid, Donald G ^b   Gauthier, Gilles ^a   Krebs, Charles J ^c   Berteaux, Dominique ^d   Kenney, Alice J ^c  

^a CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society Canada   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; JUVENILE; LACTATION; LATITUDE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SMALL MAMMAL; SNOW COVER; TUNDRA;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC;

MAMMALIA; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE;

EID: 84880507008     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00220.x     Document Type: Article

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