Ural owl predation on field voles and bank voles by size, sex and reproductive state

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 90-98

  Karell, Patrik ^a   Lehtosalo, Nina ^a   Pietiäinen, Hannu ^a   Brommer, Jon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; PREDATION; RAPTOR; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SIZE EFFECT; SMALL MAMMAL;

FINLAND;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX URALENSIS;

EID: 77952714033     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.047.0202     Document Type: Article

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