Social organization of neotoma micropus, the southern plains woodrat

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 290-297

  Conditt, Sarah A ^a   Ribble, David O ^a  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROPUS; NEOTOMA; NEOTOMA MICROPUS;

EID: 0030995718     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2426848     Document Type: Article

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