Lemming predators on the Siberian tundra

Ambio

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-286

  Wiklund, Christer G ^a   Angerbjörn, Anders ^b   Isakson, Erik ^a   Kjellén, Nils ^c   Tannerfeldt, Magnus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MAMMAL; PREDATION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

DICROSTONYX TORQUATUS; LEMMUS SIBIRICUS;

EID: 0032996171     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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