Demographic responses to a mild winter in enclosed vole populations

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-288

  Hoset, Katrine S ^a,b   Le Galliard, Jean François ^a,c   Gundersen, Gry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Home range overlap; Ice accumulation; Microtus oeconomus; Social behaviour; Winter survival

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; HOME RANGE; RODENT; SNOWMELT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 62949214785     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-008-0130-4     Document Type: Article

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