Effects of natural and anthropogenic change on habitat use and movement of endangered salt marsh harvest mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Smith, Katherine R ^a,b,d   Barthman Thompson, Laureen ^b   Gould, William R ^c   Mabry, Karen E ^a  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b California Department of Fish and Wildlife   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOOD TIDE; HABITAT USE; NONHUMAN; REITHRODONTOMYS RAVIVENTRIS HALICOETES; RODENT; SPECIES REFUGE; TELEMETRY; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MOUSE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY);

REITHRODONTOMYS RAVIVENTRIS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMANS; MICE; MOVEMENT; WETLANDS;

EID: 84907892311     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108739     Document Type: Article

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