Trap height and capture success of arboreal small mammals: Evidence from southern flying squirrels (Glaucomys volans)

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 346-351

  Risch, Thomas S ^a   Brady, Matthew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; MAMMALIA; PETAURISTINAE; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0030470712     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2426738     Document Type: Article

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