Competition between two Australian rodent species: A regression analysis

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 962-971

  Luo, Jia ^a,b   Monamy, Vaughan ^a   Fox, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Census variance; Community asymmetry; Competition; Habitat selection; Pseudomys higginsi; Rattus lutreolus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001636551     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383104     Document Type: Article

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