Small mammals in native and anthropogenic habitats in the Lake Wilson area of north-central Kansas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 45-60

  Kaufman, Donald W ^a   Kaufman, Glennis A ^a   Clark, Bryon K ^a,b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLARINA HYLOPHAGA; CHAETODIPUS HISPIDUS; CRYPTOTIS PARVA; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MUS MUSCULUS; NEOTOMA FLORIDANA; ONYCHORAYS LEUCOGASTER; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; REITHRODONTOMYS MEGALOTIS; REITHRODONTOMYS MONTANUS; SIGMODON HISPIDUS; SPERMOPHILUS TRIDECEMLINEATUS; SYNAPTOMYS COOPERI;

EID: 0034115206     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3672551     Document Type: Review

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