String theory: Reducing mortality of mammals in pitfall traps

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1158-1162

  Karraker, Nancy E ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverboards; Ensatina eschscholtzii; Mammal mortality; Pitfall traps; Small mammal escape devices; SMED; Sorex trowbridgii

Indexed keywords

MAMMAL; MORTALITY; PITFALL TRAP; SAMPLING;

AMPHIBIA; ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; SOREX TROWBRIDGII;

EID: 0035684938     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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