Optimally foraging deer mice in prairie mosaics: A test of habitat theory and absence of landscape effects

Oikos

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-42

  Morris, Douglas W ^a  

^a LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEER MOUSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; OPTIMAL FORAGING;

CERVIDAE; CRICETINAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 0030799273     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546513     Document Type: Article

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