Spatial explicit demography: The effects habitat patch isolation have on vole matrilines

Ecology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-57

  Johannesen, E ^a   Andreassen, H P ^a   Ims, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Demography; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat patch isolation; Matrilines; Microtus; Predation; Source sink dynamics

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RATE; HABITAT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

MICROTUS;

EID: 0033958987     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2000.00119.x     Document Type: Article

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