An Experimental Test of Competition among Mice, Chipmunks, and Squirrels in Deciduous Forest Fragments

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Brunner, Jesse L ^a,b   Duerr, Shannon ^b   Keesing, Felicia ^c   Killilea, Mary ^d   Vuong, Holly ^b,e   Ostfeld, Richard S ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^c BARD COLLEGE   (United States)

^d NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCIURIDAE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES INVASION; SURVIVAL RATE; TAMIAS; TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FOREST; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; NEW YORK; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA; MUS; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; TAMIAS STRIATUS;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; MICE; NEW YORK; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 84879145045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066798     Document Type: Article

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