Impacts of resource abundance on populations of a tropical forest rodent

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 242-254

  Adler, Gregory H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN OSHKOSH   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Neotropics; Panama; Proechimys semispinosus; Resource limitation; Rodents; Spiny rats

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORY; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

PANAMA;

ECHIMYIDAE; PROECHIMYS SEMISPINOSUS; RODENTIA; SPINY;

EID: 0031684442     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0242:IORAOP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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