Population trends and habitat associations of rodents in Southern Texas

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 153-160

  Windberg, Lamar A ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HABITAT PREFERENCE; POPULATION TREND; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

TEXAS; USA; WEBB COUNTY;

CHAETODIPUS; CRICETINAE; DIPODOMYS; ONYCHOMYS; PEROMYSCUS; REITHRODONTOMYS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON;

EID: 0031875048     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1998)140[0153:PTAHAO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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