Movement of voles across habitat boundaries: Effects of food and cover

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 216-224

  Lin, Y Kirk ^a,b   Batzli, George O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Emigration; Experimental landscape; Habitat boundary; Habitat quality; Ideal free distribution; Meadow voles; Microtus; Movement; Prairie voles

Indexed keywords

EMIGRATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT MOSAIC; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; MOVEMENT; RODENT; VEGETATION COVER;

MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3242696736     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2004)085<0216:MOVAHB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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