Effects of landscape type and extensive management on use of motorway roadsides by small mammals

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 108-117

  Meunier, Francis D ^a   Corbin, Johanna ^a   Verheyden, Christophe ^a   Jouventin, Pierre ^a  

^a CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT TYPE; HABITAT USE; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SMALL MAMMAL;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; CROCIDURA RUSSULA; MICROTUS ARVALIS;

EID: 0033389304     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z98-203     Document Type: Article

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