Effect of road density on abundance of white-footed mice

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1501-1512

  Rytwinski, Trina ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Local extinction; Movement; Peromyscus leucopus; Population subdivision; Predator release; Recolonization; Relative abundance; Road density; Rural and urban landscapes; Small mammal; Tracking tubes

Indexed keywords

FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROAD; RODENT; RURAL AREA;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 35848959509     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9134-2     Document Type: Article

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