Habitat differences affect life history tactics of a pulsed resource consumer, the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

Population Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 481-492

  Bieber, Claudia ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Beech mast; Capture recapture models; Local survival; Program MARK; Reproductive strategy

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSUMER-RESOURCE INTERACTION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; EDIBLE SPECIES; HIBERNATION; JUVENILE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; SEED PRODUCTION; SUBPOPULATION; SURVIVAL; WOODLAND;

FAGUS; MYOXIDAE; MYOXUS GLIS;

EID: 70349865222     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-009-0140-x     Document Type: Article

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