Responses of a small mammal community to heterogeneity along forest-old-field edges

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 355-367

  Manson, Robert H ^a,b   Ostfeld, Richard S ^a   Canham, Charles D ^a  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blarina brevicauda; Competition; Ecological model system; Ecotones edge effects; Forest edge; Macrohabitat; Microhabitat; Microtus pennsylvanicus; Old field; Peromyscus leucopus; Predation; Seed predation; Seedling

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EDGE EFFECT; FOREST EDGE; HETEROGENEITY; INSECTIVORE; PLANT COMMUNITY; RODENT;

UNITED STATES;

BLARINA BREVICAUDA; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 0032844022     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008093823391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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