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Patterns and Impacts of Movements at Different Scales in Small Mammals

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Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals

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Understanding how patterns of movement are affected by the spatial structure of an environment is a key question for landscape ecologists (Wiens 1995). All organisms exist in spatially heterogeneous environments and movement through these mosaics clearly has impacts on individual fitness (Fretwell and Lucas 1970, Morris 1992), population demography (Pulliam 1988, Hanski and Gilpin 1991, Pulliam and Danielson 1991) and community structure (Connell 1961, Danielson 1991, 1992, Holt 1993, McLaughlin and Roughgarden 1993, Abramsky et al. 1994, Brown 1996). Ostfeld et al. (1996) consider heterogeneity to be a unifying hypothetical foundation in ecology and conservation.

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    Gary W. Barrett

  2. Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, The University of Georgia, 29802, Aiken, SC, USA

    John D. Peles

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Diffendorfer, J.E., Gaines, M.S., Holt, R.D. (1999). Patterns and Impacts of Movements at Different Scales in Small Mammals. In: Barrett, G.W., Peles, J.D. (eds) Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21622-5_4

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