Breeding suppression in voles under predation risk of small mustelids: Laboratory or methodological artifact?

Oikos

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 365-369

  Mappes, Tapio ^a   Koskela, Esa ^a   Ylönen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SUPPRESSION; LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY; PREDATION RISK; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELA NIVALIS NIVALIS; MUSTELIDAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031844633     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546977     Document Type: Article

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