Local hot spots and their edge effects: Small mammals in oak-hazel woodland

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 55-62

  Hansson, Lennart ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EDGE EFFECT; HOTSPOT; SMALL MAMMAL; WOODLAND;

EID: 0031911906     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546467     Document Type: Article

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