Effects of habitat loss on populations of white-footed mice: Testing matrix model predictions with landscape-scale perturbation experiments

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 817-831

  Burns, Catherine E ^a,b   Grear, Jason S ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat loss; Mammal; Model; New England; Peromyscus leucopus; Population viability; Simulation; Spatial population model; Test; White footed mouse

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT LOSS; MODEL TEST; PERTURBATION; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; RODENT;

CONNECTICUT; NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS;

EID: 49849105615     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9239-2     Document Type: Article

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