Paleoecological implications of the first prehistoric record of water vole (Microtus richardsoni) from Washington state, USA.
Remains of the North American water vole (Microtus richardsoni) have previously been recovered from late Pleistocene and Holocene deposits in southwestern Alberta, western Montana, and north-central Wyoming. All are within the historically documented modern range of the metapopulation occupying the...
| Publicado en: | Quaternary Research Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 381 - 388 |
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Cambridge University Press
Sep2019
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