Small mammals in montane wet meadow habitat at Grays Lake, Idaho

Northwest Science

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 225-233

  Austin, Jane E ^a   Pyle, William H ^b,c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Idaho Fishery Resource Office   (United States)

^c Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; LAND MANAGEMENT; MEADOW; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SMALL MAMMAL;

GRAYS LAKE NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE; IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CERVIDAE; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS MONTANUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; MUSTELA ERMINEA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SOREX VAGRANS; SORICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 5344272570     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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