Monitoring use of runways by voles with passive integrated transponders

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 364-369

  Harper, Steven J ^a   Batzli, George O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

activity; behavior; marking techniques; Microtus; passive integrated transponders; PIT tags; runway monitoring

Indexed keywords

MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; OCHROGASTER;

EID: 0029781918     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382809     Document Type: Article

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