Influence of habitat, sex, age, and drought on the diet of Townsend's ground squirrels

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 521-537

  Van Horne, Beatrice ^a   Schooley, Robert L ^a   Sharpe, Peter B ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet; Drought; Fecal analysis; Food preference; Hibernation; Shrub steppe; Spermophilus townsendii; Survival

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA TRIDENTATA; CERATOIDES; KRASCHENINNIKOVIA LANATA; LANATA; POA SECUNDA; POACEAE; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDI; TRIDENTATA;

EID: 0004015548     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1382983     Document Type: Article

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