Microhabitat use and density of sigmodontine rodents in Spartina densiflora freshwater marshes, Argentina

Mammalia

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-377

  Bonaventura, S M ^a   Pancotto, V ^a   Madanes, N ^a   Vicari, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Freshwater marshes; Microhabitat use; Population fluctuations; Sigmodontine rodents

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; HETEROGENEITY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MARSH; MICROHABITAT; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AKODON; AKODON AZARAE; OLIGORYZOMYS; OLIGORYZOMYS FLAVESCENS; OXYMYCTERUS; OXYMYCTERUS RUFUS; RODENTIA; SCAPTEROMYS TUMIDUS; SPARTINA; SPARTINA DENSIFLORA;

EID: 1642457305     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.2003.67.3.367     Document Type: Article

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