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 an...
| Published in: | PLoS ONE |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | unknown |
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2014
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.montana.edu/xmlui/handle/1/8839 |