Ecosystem scale declines in elk recruitment and population growth with wolf colonization: a before-after-control-impact approach.
The reintroduction of wolves (Canis lupus) to Yellowstone provided the unusual opportunity for a quasi-experimental test of the effects of wolf predation on their primary prey (elk--Cervus elaphus) in a system where top-down, bottom-up, and abiotic forces on prey population dynamics were closely and...
| Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0102330 https://doaj.org/article/42255f5fd8734305bc1c89b05890a59c |