Population structure, distribution, and demography of muskrats during the ice-free period under contrasting water fluctuations

Ecoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 54-62

  Virgl, John A ^a   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Demography; Limiting factors; Muskrat; Ondatra zibethicus; Predation; Spacing behaviour; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER LEVEL;

ONDATRA ZIBETHICUS;

EID: 0029661260     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1996.11682315     Document Type: Article

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