Space-use responses to habitat fragmentation and connectivity in the root vole Microtus oeconomus

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1223-1235

  Andreassen, Harry P ^a   Hertzberg, Karine ^b   Ims, Rolf A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b EASTERN NORWAY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Corridors; Experimental manipulation; Habitat fragmentation; Home range size; Movement rates; Space sharing; Spatiosocial structuring

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; RODENT;

MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031848792     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/176738     Document Type: Article

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