Effects of mesopredators and prescribed fire on hispid cotton rat survival and cause-specific mortality

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 938-944

  Conner, L Mike ^a   Castleberry, Steven B ^b   Derrick, Anna M ^a  

^a JOSEPH W JONES ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause specific mortality; Hispid cotton rat; Longleaf pine; Pinus palustris; Predator prey relationships; Prescribed fire; Sigmodon hispidus; Small mammal; Survival

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PLAIN; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWING SEASON; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PRESCRIBED BURNING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; RODENT; SURVIVAL; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; RAPTORES; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 79957594128     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.110     Document Type: Article

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