Effects of home-range characteristics on the diet composition of female American mink in the Baltic Sea archipelago

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-122

  Salo, Pälvi ^a   Toivola, Mikko ^a,b   Nordstrom, Mikael ^a,c   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b Ruukinpuisto   (Finland)

^c Natural Heritage Services   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARCHIPELAGO; DIET; FEMALE; HOME RANGE; MUSTELID; PREDATOR; RADIOTELEMETRY;

ARCHIPELAGO SEA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; EUROPE;

AVES; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 77952320181     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.047.0204     Document Type: Article

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