Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 283, Issue 1833, 2016, Pages

  Merkle, Jerod A ^a   Monteith, Kevin L ^a   Aikens, Ellen O ^a   Hayes, Matthew M ^a   Hersey, Kent R ^b   Middleton, Arthur D ^c   Oates, Brendan A ^a   Sawyer, Hall ^d   Scurlock, Brandon M ^e   Kauffman, Matthew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UTAH DIVISION OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^e WYOMING GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Forage maturation hypothesis; Green wave hypothesis; Habitat selection; Large herbivores; Migration; Normalized difference vegetation index

Indexed keywords

FORAGE; HABITAT SELECTION; HERBIVORE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MATURATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MIGRATORY POPULATION; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; RUMINANT; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRING (SEASON); VEGETATION INDEX;

ANIMALIA; BISON; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; OVIS CANADENSIS;

ANIMAL; BISON; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; PLANT; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SHEEP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BISON; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORY; PLANTS; SEASONS; SHEEP; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84975266516     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0456     Document Type: Article

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