Mismatch Between Birth Date and Vegetation Phenology Slows the Demography of Roe Deer

This study of a French deer population reveals the demographic costs associated with the failure of a herbivore to modify its life cycle timing to respond to a warming world.

• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2014-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001828PMID 24690936PMCID 3972086
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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