Keeping tabs: Are redundant marking systems needed for rodents?

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 764-771

  Fokidis, H Bobby ^a,b,c   Robertson, Christy ^a   Risch, Thomas S ^a,b  

^a ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cotton mice; Deer mice; Ear tag; Flying squirrels; Glaucomys volans; Hispid cotton rats; House mice; Mus musculus; P. maniculatus; Passive integrated transponder tags; Peromyscus gossypinus; Sigmodon hispidus; Survival analysis; Tag failure

Indexed keywords

MARKING METHOD; RODENT; TAGGING;

CERVIDAE; CRICETIDAE; GLAUCOMYS VOLANS; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; MUS MUSCULUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS GOSSYPINUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; PTEROMYINI; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 33751253129     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2006)34[764:KTARMS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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