Tree communities, microhabitat characteristics, and small mammals associated with the endangered rock vole, Microtus chrotorrhinus, in Virginia

Southeastern Naturalist

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 547-558

  Orrock, John L ^a,b   Pagels, John F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BRYOPHYTA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS CHROTORRHINUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 24344436834     PISSN: 15287092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1528-7092(2003)002[0547:TCMCAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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