Habitat-specific demography: Evidence for source-sink population structure in a mammal, the pika

Oecologia

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 343-349

  Kreuzer, M P ^a   Huntly, N J ^a  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Niche; Ochotona princeps; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; MAMMAL; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

ANIMALIA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; OCHOTONA PRINCEPS; OCHOTONIDAE;

EID: 0037292425     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-1145-8     Document Type: Article

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