Distribution and coexistence of shrews in patchy landscapes: A field test of multiple hypotheses

Acta Oecologica

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 797-804

  Mortelliti, Alessio ^a   Boitani, Luigi ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Habitat loss and fragmentation; Patch structure; Soricomorpha; Spatially structured populations

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE INDEX; COEXISTENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT LOSS; INSECTIVORE; LANDSCAPE; MAMMAL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAPPING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CROCIDURA; CROCIDURA LEUCODON; CROCIDURA SUAVEOLENS; MAMMALIA; SOREX MINUTUS; SOREX SAMNITICUS; SORICIDAE; SORICOMORPHA; SUNCUS ETRUSCUS;

EID: 70350127744     PISSN: 1146609X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actao.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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