Modelling survival rates: Habitat fragmentation and destruction in root vole experimental populations

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1196-1209

  Johannesen, Edda ^a   Ims, Rolf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Capture recapture models; Demography; Emigration; Habitat destruction; Habitat fragmentation; Microtus oeconomus; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION; HABITAT DESTRUCTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; POPULATION SIZE; ROOT VOLE; SURVIVAL;

MICROTUS OECONOMUS;

EID: 0030422435     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265589     Document Type: Article

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