Siberian flying squirrel responses to high- and low-contrast forest edges

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 543-552

  Desrochers, André ^a   Hanski, Ilpo K ^b   Selonen, Vesa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Boundary; Edge effect; Finland; Flying squirrel; Forest fragmentation; Pteromys volans; Radio tracking; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; FOREST EDGE; HOME RANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOVEMENT; RODENT;

FINLAND;

PETAURISTINAE; PICEA; PTEROMYS VOLANS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 0242424282     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026006311944     Document Type: Article

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