Reducing mortality of shrews in rodent live trapping - A method increasing live-trap selectivity with shrew exits

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 371-376

  Eccard, Jana A ^a   Klemme, Ines ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; JUVENILE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; METABOLISM; MORTALITY; RODENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRAPPING;

FINLAND;

EID: 84888335681     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.050.0602     Document Type: Article

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