Reasons for arboreality in wood mice Apodemus sylvaticus and Bank voles Myodes glareolus

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 318-324

  Buesching, Christina D ^a   Newman, Christopher ^a   Twell, Rachael ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arboreality; competition; forest management; habitat use; small mammals

Indexed keywords

ARBOREAL SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT USE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY; UNDERSTORY; WOOD;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WYTHAM WOODS;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 45249087074     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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