Population dynamics of arboreal and terrestrial small mammals in a tropical rainforest, Sarawak, Malaysia

Raffles Bulletin of Zoology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-395

  Nakagawa, Michiko ^a,b   Miguchi, Hideo ^c   Sato, Kaori ^d   Sakai, Shoko ^e   Nakashizuka, Tohru ^f  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

General flowering; Immigrant; Recruitment; Rodent; Treeshrew

Indexed keywords

CALLOSCIURUS PREVOSTII; MAMMALIA; MAXOMYS RAJAH; RATTUS; RODENTIA; SCANDENTIA; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 49749128930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 02172445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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