Biomass Flow and Scavengers Use of Carcasses after Re-Colonization of an Apex Predator

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Wikenros, Camilla ^a   Sand, Håkan ^a   Ahlqvist, Per ^a   Liberg, Olof ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CANIS LUPUS; CARCASS; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL RECOLONIZATION; MOOSE; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR; SCAVENGER (ORGANISM); SEASONAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WOLF; ANIMAL; BIOTA; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; SCANDINAVIA; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIOTA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SCANDINAVIAN AND NORDIC COUNTRIES; WOLVES;

EID: 84886006416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077373     Document Type: Article

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