Effects of extra food on population fluctuation patterns of the muroid rodent Calomys venustus

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 273-283

  Castellarini, F ^a,b   Polop, J ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Argentina)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Food supplementation; Intervention analysis; Population dynamics; Small mammal; South America; Time series

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENT;

CALOMYS; CALOMYS VENUSTUS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0003215621     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01178.x     Document Type: Article

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