Ecological factors affecting the diel activity of voles in a multi-species community

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 242-247

  Gliwicz, Joanna ^a   Da̧browski, Michał J ^a  

^a MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; DOMINANCE; MUSTELID; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; RODENT; TRAPPING;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MURIDAE; MUS; MUSTELA NIVALIS; MUSTELINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 52749099368     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.045.0401     Document Type: Conference Paper

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