Home ranges and habitat use in the declining flying squirrel Pteromys volans in managed forests

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 33-46

  Hanski, Ilpo K ^a  

^a Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

Flying squirrel; Habitat use; Home range; Pteromys volans; Radio tracking; Red list species

Indexed keywords

ALNUS; ALNUS GLUTINOSA; ALNUS INCANA; BETULA; BETULA PENDULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULACEAE; PENDULA; PETAURISTINAE; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULA; PTEROMYS VOLANS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0031960320     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1998.013     Document Type: Article

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