Use of track tubes to detect changes in abundance of beach mice

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 791-798

  Wilkinson, Elliot B ^a   Branch, Lyn C ^a   Miller, Deborah L ^b   Gore, Jeffery A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FISH AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

abundance monitoring; beach mice; coastal habitat; Peromyscus polionotus leucocephalus; track tube

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CAPTURE METHOD; COASTAL ZONE; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RODENT; SAMPLING;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS; PEROMYSCUS POLIONOTUS LEUCOCEPHALUS;

EID: 84863639185     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/11-MAMM-A-251.5     Document Type: Article

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