Application of radiotelemetry to the survey of acorn dispersal by Apodemus mice

Ecological Research

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-192

  Soné, Koichi ^a,c   Kohno, Aki ^b  

^a Tama Forest Science Garden   (Japan)

^b TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

acorn dispersal; Apodemus mice; radiotelemetry; spool and line method

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS; RODENTIA; APODEMUS ARGENTEUS; APODEMUS SPECIOSUS;

ACORN; METHOD COMPARISON; RADIOTELEMETRY; SEED DISPERSAL; SPOOL-AND-LINE METHOD;

EID: 0029660373     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02347684     Document Type: Article

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