Early-summer reproductive curtailment in wild white-footed mice and reproductive recovery in the laboratory

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 320-325

  Terman, C Richard ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis; Population regulation; Reproductive inhibition; White footed mouse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0542372796     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382868     Document Type: Article

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