Factors influencing survival and reproduction of Virginia opossums (Didelphis virginiana) at their northern distributional limit
To understand how species' distributions vary with landscape and climatic changes, we must first understand the proximate mechanisms responsible for distributional boundaries. A direct physiological link between the Virginia opossum's (Didelphis virginiana) winter energetics and its northe...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2005
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3179891 |