How predation and landscape fragmentation affect vole population dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Dalkvist, Trine ^a,b   Sibly, Richard M ^a,c   Topping, Chris J ^a  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYSIOLOGY;

MICROTUS AGRESTIS; MURIDAE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79960926114     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022834     Document Type: Article

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