Responses of mice to fluctuating habitat quality I. Patterns from a long-term observational study

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 123-136

  Morrison, Michael L ^a,b   Hall, Linnea S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PEROMYSCUS TRUEI; PINUS MONOPHYLLA;

EID: 0031760230     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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