Temporal scales of density-dependent habitat selection in a large grazing herbivore

Oikos

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 933-942

  Blix, Anna W ^a   Mysterud, Atle ^a   Loe, Leif Egil ^b   Austrheim, Gunnar ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; GRAZING; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; SHEEP; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84904299471     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01069     Document Type: Article

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