Roles of human disturbance, precipitation, and a pathogen on the survival and reproductive probabilities of deer mice

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 582-592

  Andrea Previtali, M ^a,e   Lehmer, Erin M ^b   Pearce Duvet, Jessica M C ^a,c   Jones, Jeremy D ^a   Clay, Christine A ^d   Wood, Britta A ^a   Ely, Patrick W ^a   Laverty, Sean M ^a   Denise Dearing, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d WESTMINSTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^e CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Utah; Deer mice; Density dependence; Great Basin Desert; Human disturbance; Off road vehicles; Peromyscus maniculatus; Precipitation; Reproduction; Seasonality; Sin Nombre virus; Survival; USA

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REPRODUCTION; RODENT; SEASONALITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; TRANSPORT VEHICLE; VIRUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; RODENT DISEASE; SEASON; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; TIME; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HANTAVIRUS PULMONARY SYNDROME; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MALE; PEROMYSCUS; RAIN; REPRODUCTION; RODENT DISEASES; SEASONS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS; TIME FACTORS;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

HANTAVIRUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; SIN NOMBRE VIRUS;

EID: 77949277412     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2308.1     Document Type: Article

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