Mobility and habitat utilization of small mustelids in relation to cyclically fluctuating prey abundances

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 75-82

  Klemola, Tero ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a   Norrdahl, Kai ^a   Tanhuanpää, Miia ^a   Koivula, Minna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HABITAT USE; PREY AVAILABILITY;

FINLAND;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MICROTUS ROSSIAEMERIDIONALIS; MUSTELA; MUSTELA ERMINEA;

EID: 0344171938     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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