Patterns of rodent abundance on open-space grasslands in relation to suburban edges

Conservation Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1653-1658

  Bock, Carl E ^a   Vierling, Kerri T ^a   Haire, Sandra L ^b   Boone, John D ^a   Merkle, William W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; EDGE EFFECT; GRASSLAND; RODENT; SUBURBAN AREA;

UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CHAETODIPUS; CHAETODIPUS HISPIDUS; CRICETINAE; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; MUSCULUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036898750     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.01291.x     Document Type: Article

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