Evaluation of Stouffer® wildlife timers for conducting temporal wildlife studies

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 762-768

  Henke, Scott E ^a   VanderZee, Jacob H ^a   Grubbs, Shannon E ^a   Gard, Tim A ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Live capture; Mesopredators; Rodents; Temporal movements; Wildlife timers

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; INSTRUMENTATION; RODENT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0142216174     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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