Small-mammal abundance at three elevations on a mountain in central Vermont, USA: A sixteen-year record

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 110, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 181-193

  Brooks, Robert T ^a   Smith, Harvey R ^b   Healy, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Annual population dynamics; Eastern chipmunks; Northern short tailed shrews; Red backed voles; White footed mice

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ELEVATION; MAMMAL; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION SIZE;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; BLARINA BREVICAUDA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CRICETINAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; SORICIDAE; TAMIAS STRIATUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0032487476     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00289-8     Document Type: Article

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