Dispersal and habitat cuing of Eurasian red squirrels in fragmented habitats

Population Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-536

  Wauters, Lucas Armand ^a,b   Verbeylen, Goedele ^b,c   Preatoni, Damiano ^a   Martinoli, Adriano ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c Natuurpunt Studie   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dispersal distance; Habitat quality; Landscape composition; Natal habitat biased dispersal; Parentage assignment; Sciurus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FITNESS; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HOME RANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PARENTAGE; RODENT; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 84755160847     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-010-0203-z     Document Type: Article

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