Experimental colonisation of contrasting habitats by house mice

Zeitschrift fur Saugetierkunde

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 350-358

  Tattersall, Françoise H ^a,b   Smith, R H ^a,c   Nowell, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELINAE; MUS DOMESTICUS;

BUILDING; COLINIZATION; HOUSE MOUSE; WOODLAND;

EID: 0031456138     PISSN: 00443468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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