Dynamics and trophic interactions of small rodents: Landscape or regional effects on spatial variation?

Oecologia

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-266

  Hansson, Lennart ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bark food; Clethrionomys; Microtus; Predators; Seed food

Indexed keywords

FOOD LIMITATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RODENT; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

SWEDEN;

CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; MUSTELIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036934113     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100802     Document Type: Article

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