Distances as indices to movements and home-range size from trapping records of small mammals

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 346-351

  Slade, Norman A ^a   Russell, Lance A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b Environmental Site Assessment   (United States)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Home range; Microtus; Movement; Sigmodon

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000458896     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382871     Document Type: Article

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