Use of hair tubes to survey for shrews: New methods for identification and quantification of abundance

Mammal Review

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 299-308

  Pocock, Michael J O ^a   Jennings, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bait tube; Faunagoo; Longworth trap; Pelage; Small mammal; Soricidae; Sticky tube

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CAPTURE METHOD; HAIR; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SURVEY; TRAPPING;

MAMMALIA; NEOMYS FODIENS; SOREX ARANEUS; SOREX MINUTUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 33845476718     PISSN: 03051838     EISSN: 13652907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2907.2006.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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