Spatial and temporal patterns of small-rodent population dynamics at a regional scale

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2365-2372

  Steen, Harald ^a   Ims, Rolf A ^b   Sonerud, Geir A ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clethrionomys; Dispersal; Population dynamics; Scaling factor; Small rodents; Spatial autocorrelation; Spatial synchrony

Indexed keywords

CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

BANK VOLE; BOREAL FOREST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL SYNCHRONY;

NORWAY;

EID: 0030422789     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265738     Document Type: Article

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