Diets and predictions of feeding rate of house mice and Lakeland Downs short-tailed mice inhabiting an arid-zone island in Western Australia

Australian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 249-265

  Moro, D ^a   Bradshaw, S D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; FECAL PELLET; PREDICTION; RODENT;

AUSTRALIA;

EUDICOTYLEDONS; EUTHERIA; INVERTEBRATA; LEGGADINA LAKEDOWNENSIS; LILIOPSIDA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS MUSCULUS DOMESTICUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036407323     PISSN: 0004959X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/ZO01068     Document Type: Article

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