Is food quality responsible for the cold-season decline in bank vole density? Laboratory experiment with herb and acorn diets

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-32

  Wereszczyńska, Anna M ^a   Nowakowski, Wojciech K ^a   Nowakowski, Jarosław K ^b   Jȩdrzejewska, Bogumiła ^c  

^a SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Body mass; Clethrionomys glareolus; Detoxification enzymes; Feeding experiments; Locomotor activity

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DIET; BODY MASS; DETOXIFICATION; ENZYME; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; HERB; LABORATORY METHOD; LOCOMOTION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34248328731     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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