Population effects of landscape model manipulation on two behaviourally different woodland small mammals

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 168-186

  Henein, Kringen ^a   Wegner, John ^a   Merriam, Gray ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE; EASTERN CHIPMUNK; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MODELLING; POPULATION PERSISTANCE; POPULATION SIZE; WHITE-FOTTED MOUSE;

PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

EID: 0031952042     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546479     Document Type: Article

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