Stranded on an island: Consequences of forest fragmentation for body size variations in an arboreal mammal, the edible dormouse (Glis glis)

Population Ecology

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 313-320

  Fietz, Joanna ^a,b   Weis Dootz, Tanja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body mass; Body size; Fragmentation; Island rule; Small mammal

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ARBOREAL SPECIES; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY; ISOLATED POPULATION; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; RODENT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

MAMMALIA; MYOXIDAE; MYOXUS GLIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84859106889     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-012-0310-0     Document Type: Article

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