Refuge site selection by the eastern chestnut mouse in recently burnt heath

Wildlife Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 290-298

  Pereoglou, F ^a   MacGregor, C ^a   Banks, S C ^a   Ford, F ^b   Wood, J ^a   Lindenmayer, D B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RADIOTELEMETRY; REFUGE; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SHELTER; SITE SELECTION; TRADE-OFF; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80052725307     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR11007     Document Type: Article

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