Effects of prescribed fire, supplemental feeding, and mammalian predator exclusion on hispid cotton rat populations

Oecologia

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1005-1016

  Morris, Gail ^a,b   Hostetler, Jeffrey A ^b   Conner, L Mike ^a   Oli, Madan K ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Longleaf pine; Multistate capture mark recapture models; Population level response to fire; Sigmodon hispidus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COTTON; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PREDATION RISK; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RADIOTELEMETRY; RODENT; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIRE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; SIGMODONTINAE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FIRES; FOOD CHAIN; GEORGIA; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; SIGMODONTINAE; TELEMETRY;

GEORGIA; UNITED STATES;

MAMMALIA; PINUS PALUSTRIS; SIGMODON; SIGMODON HISPIDUS;

EID: 80855131476     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-011-2053-6     Document Type: Article

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