Live animal radiography to measure developmental instability in populations of small mammals after a natural disaster

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 883-891

  Hopton, Matthew E ^a   Cameron, Guy N ^a   Cramer, Michael J ^a   Polak, Michal ^a   Uetz, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Conservation; Fluctuating asymmetry; Live animal X ray technique; Peromyscus; Stress; Tornado

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; BIODIVERSITY; DEBRIS; DISASTERS; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; OCEAN HABITATS; STABILITY; TORNADOES; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCES; BODY CONDITIONS; FEMUR LENGTHS; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; FOOD AVAILABILITIES; FOREST HABITATS; HABITAT PREFERENCES; HABITAT QUALITIES; LIVE ANIMAL X-RAY TECHNIQUE; NATURAL DISASTERS; PEROMYSCUS; POPULATION DENSITIES; SMALL MAMMALS; VERTICAL STRATIFICATIONS; WOODY DEBRIS;

ECOLOGY;

ANIMAL; COARSE WOODY DEBRIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HABITAT QUALITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NATURAL DISASTER; NATURE RESERVE; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SMALL MAMMAL; STRATIFICATION; TORNADO;

ACCIDENTS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; DISASTERS; ECOLOGY; FIBER DEBRIS; FORESTRY; MAMMALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; STABILITY; STRESSES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS;

EID: 60849098149     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2008.10.010     Document Type: Article

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