Links between microhabitat preferences and seed predation by small mammals in old fields

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 37-50

  Manson, Robert H ^a   Stiles, Edmund W ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MICROHABITAT PREFERENCE; OLD FIELD; SEED PREDATION;

NEW JERSEY; USA;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; RUBUS ALLEGHENIENSIS;

EID: 0031779145     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546915     Document Type: Article

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