Does fungus consumption by the woodland jumping mouse vary with habitat type or the abundance of other small mammals?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 753-756

  Orrock, John L ^a,b   Farley, Deborah ^a   Pagels, John F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; FUNGI;

MYCOPHAGY;

ECOLOGY;

DIET; FOOD INTAKE; FUNGUS; HABITAT TYPE; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MYCOPHAGY; RODENT; SMALL MAMMAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CERVIDAE; CONIUM; CONIUM MACULATUM; CRICETINAE; DIPODIDAE; ELAPHOMYCES; ENDOGONE; FUNGI; GLOMERALES; GLOMUS; HYMENOGASTER; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; NAPAEOZAPUS INSIGNIS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; TSUGA CANADENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037591926     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z03-035     Document Type: Article

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