Are alpine bank voles larger and more sexually dimorphic because adults survive better?

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 85-98

  Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a,b   Mesnager, Séverine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY WEIGHT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALPS; FRANCE;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; MUSTELINAE; PICEA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031782518     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546919     Document Type: Article

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