Ecological characteristics of small mammal communities at a superfund site

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-68

  Phelps, Kendra L ^a   Mcbee, Karen ^b  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ECOTOXICOLOGY; HEAVY METAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMALL MAMMAL; SUPERFUND;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 59149094267     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-161.1.57     Document Type: Article

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