Forest fragments in east-central Illinois: Islands or habitat patches for mammals?

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 115-123

  Rosenblatt, Daniel L ^a,b   Heske, Edward J ^b   Nelson, Suzanne L ^a   Barber, Diana M ^a   Miller, Martin A ^a   MacAllister, Bruce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MAMMAL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ILLINOIS; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; PETAURISTINAE; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 0032904083     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(1999)141[0115:FFIECI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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