Body Size Related to Cyclicity in Microtines: Dominance Behaviour or Digestive Efficiency?
- 1 July 1989
- Vol. 55 (3) , 356-364
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3565595
Abstract
In Sweden the field vole Microtus agrestis is larger and more variable in body size in northern cyclic populations than in southern non-cyclic populations. Nort...This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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