Infusing considerations of trophic dependencies into species distribution modelling

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1507-1517

  Trainor, Anne M ^a,b   Schmitz, Oswald J ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer resource; Geospatial niche theory; Predator prey interaction; Resource selection theory; Species distribution modelling; Trophic interaction distribution modelling

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOPHYSICS; FELID; HABITAT SELECTION; MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

LEPUS AMERICANUS; LYNX;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; HARE; LYNX;

ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; HARES; LYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924982280     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12372     Document Type: Article

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