Effects of disturbance on small mammal community structure in the New Jersey Pinelands, USA

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 16-29

  Shenko, Alicia N ^a   Bien, Walter F ^a   Spotila, James R ^a   Avery, Harold W ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Mice; Military training; Pine barrens; Southern bog lemming

Indexed keywords

BLARINA BREVICAUDA; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS PINETORUM; MURIDAE; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; SORICIDAE; SYNAPTOMYS COOPERI; TAMIAS; TAMIAS STRIATUS; ZAPUS HUDSONIUS; ZAPUS HUDSONIUS PALLIDUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; HUMAN; MILITARY PHENOMENA; OAK; PHYSIOLOGY; PINACEAE; POACEAE; RODENT; SHREW; TREE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; HUMANS; MILITARY FACILITIES; NEW JERSEY; PINACEAE; POACEAE; QUERCUS; RODENTIA; SHREWS; TREES; WETLANDS;

EID: 84864383460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2011.00274.x     Document Type: Article

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