Habitat selection of rodents along a piñon-juniper woodland-savannah gradient

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 447-457

  Rodhouse, Thomas J ^a   Hirnyck, Robert P ^b,c   Wright, R Gerald ^b  

^a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Habitat selection; Idaho; Occupancy modeling; Peromyscus truei; Pi onjuniper woodland; Principal component analysis; Rodents; Tamias dorsalis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CRYPSIS; DETECTION METHOD; GRASS; GROUND COVER; HABITAT SELECTION; HERB; INVASIBILITY; OUTCROP; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RODENT; SAVANNA; SHRUB; SPECIALIST; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WOODLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

JUNIPERUS; MAMMALIA; PEROGNATHUS PARVUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS TRUEI; RODENTIA; TAMIAS DORSALIS; TAMIAS MINIMUS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 77951261275     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-060.1     Document Type: Article

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