Wheat or barley?. Feeding preferences affect distribution of three rodent species in agricultural landscape

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 110, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 354-362

  Heroldová, Marta ^a   Tkadlec, Emil ^b   Bryja, Josef ^a   Zejda, Jan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c State Phytosanitary Administration   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Agro ecosystem; Diet preference; Habitat preference; Pests; Small rodent species

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BARLEY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; HABITAT SELECTION; LABORATORY METHOD; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WHEAT;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; MORAVIA;

HORDEUM; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 39749130457     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2007.05.008     Document Type: Article

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