Impact on rodents of mowing strips in old fields of eastern Kansas

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 97-101

  Slade, Norman A ^a   Crain, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Disturbance; Habitat fragmentation; Microtus; Movements; Peromyscus; Reithrodontomys; Rodents; Sigmodon

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; MOWING; RODENT;

KANSAS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; CRICETINAE; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; REITHRODONTOMYS; REITHRODONTOMYS MEGALOTIS; RODENTIA; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 33644600465     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-006R2.1     Document Type: Article

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