Impacts of roads and corridors on abundance and movement of small mammals on the Llano Estacado of Texas

Southwestern Naturalist

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-16

  Kuykendall, M Todd ^a,b   Keller, Gregory S ^a,c  

^a EASTERN NEW MEXICO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clovis Community College   (United States)

^c GORDON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; REITHRODONTOMYS MEGALOTIS; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 79952605690     PISSN: 00384909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1894/CLG-33.1     Document Type: Article

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