Woodland recovery after suppression of deer: Cascade effects for small mammals, wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank voles (Myodes glareolus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Bush, Emma R ^a   Buesching, Christina D ^a   Slade, Eleanor M ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAPTURE MARK RECAPTURE METHOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEER; ECOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; FOREST; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SMALL MAMMAL; SOURCE SINK RELATIONSHIP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL RATE; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MURIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREE;

ANIMALIA; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; CERVIDAE; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; MUS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEER; ECOSYSTEM; MURIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

EID: 84856745411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031404     Document Type: Article

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