Effects of trap position, trap history, microhabitat and season on capture probabilities of small mammals in a wet eucalypt forest

Wildlife Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 657-671

  Cunningham, R B ^a   Lindenmayer, D B ^a   MacGregor, C ^a   Barry, S ^b   Welsh, A ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; MICROHABITAT; SMALL MAMMAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAPPING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

ANTECHINUS; ANTECHINUS AGILIS; ANTECHINUS SWAINSONII; MAMMALIA; RATTUS FUSCIPES;

EID: 28244446258     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR04069     Document Type: Article

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