Agricultural irrigation mediates climatic effects and density dependence in population dynamics of Chinese striped hamster in North China Plain

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 334-344

  Yan, Chuan ^a,b   Xu, Lei ^a   Xu, Tongqin ^c   Cao, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Fusheng ^a   Wang, Shuqing ^a   Hao, Shoushen ^a   Yang, Hefang ^a   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Wugong Station for Pest Monitoring and Forecasting   (China)

Author keywords

Agricultural activity; Global warming; Human disturbance; Small mammal

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BREEDING SEASON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLOOD; GLOBAL WARMING; IRRIGATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; RODENT;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE; CRICETULUS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMAN DISTURBANCE; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SMALL MAMMAL;

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITY; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMAN DISTURBANCE; SMALL MAMMAL;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ANIMALS; CLIMATE; CRICETULUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

CHINA; NORTH CHINA PLAIN;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CRICETULUS BARABENSIS; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84873986489     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02037.x     Document Type: Article

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