Measurement error in a burrow index to monitor relative population size in the common vole

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 169-176

  Lisická, Lenka ^a   Losík, Jan ^a   Zejda, Jan ^b   Heroldová, Marta ^b   Nesvadbová, Jiřina ^b   Tkadlec, Emil ^a,b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bias; Colonisation; Dispersion; Microtus arvalis; Precision; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

BURROW; COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DISPERSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEX METHOD; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PRECISION; RODENT; SAMPLING BIAS;

MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 34547636528     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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