Short-term effects of avian predation variation on population size and local survival of the multimammate rat, Mastomys natalensis (Rodentia, Muridae)

Mammalia

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 329-339

  Van Gulck, T ^a   Stoks, R ^a   Verhagen, R ^a   Sabuni, C A ^b   Mwanjabe, P ^c   Leirs, H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

^c Rodent Control Centre   (Tanzania)

^d Danish Pest Infestation Laboratory   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; RAPTOR; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

TANZANIA;

MASTOMYS NATALENSIS;

EID: 0032422839     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.1998.62.3.329     Document Type: Article

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