Conspicuous demographic and individual changes in a population of the common vole in a set-aside alfalfa field

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-54

  Jánová, Eva ^a   Heroldová, Marta ^a   Bryja, Josef ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE BIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; ANNUAL VARIATION; DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT; VEGETATION COVER;

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

ANIMALIA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROTUS ARVALIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 41349101572     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.045.0104     Document Type: Article

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