Frontiers in Population Ecology of Microtine Rodents: A Pluralistic Approach to the Study of Population Ecology

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 5-20

  Stenseth, Nils Chr ^a,b   Saitoh, Takashi ^a,c   Yoccoz, Nigel G ^a,d  

^a CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Clethrionomys rufocanus; Experimental manipulation and testing; Mathematical modeling; Patterns and processes; Statistical modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347243266     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02765218     Document Type: Article

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