Specialist Predators, Generalist Predators, and the Microtine Rodent Cycle

1991/02/01 by Ilkka Hanski, Lennart Hansson, Heikki Henttonen · 819 citations
Environmental Science · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Biology #Ecology #Generalist and specialist species #Habitat #Predation #Rodent

paper · doi:10.2307/5465

published in Journal of Animal Ecology 60(1), 353 (Wiley)

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