Anthropogenic impact on predator guilds and ecosystem processes : Apex predator extinctions, land use and climate change

Humans affect ecosystems by changing species compositions, landscape and climate. This thesis aims to increase our understanding of anthropogenic effects on mesopredator abundance due to changes in apex predator status, landscape and climate. I show that in Eurasia the abundance of a mesopredator, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pasanen Mortensen, Marianne
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Zoologiska institutionen 2014
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-100720
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