Resource utilization by two insular endemic mammalian carnivores, the island fox and island spotted skunk

Oecologia

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 301-307

  Crooks, Kevin R ^a   Van Vuren, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Insular ecology; Interspecific competition; Resource utilization

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC COMPETITION; BODY SIZE; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; ENDEMIC MAMMAL; FERAL; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; ISLAND FOX; ISLAND SPOTTED SKUNK; RESOURCE USE; SHEEP;

USA, CALIFORNIA, CHANNEL ISLANDS, SANTA CRUZ ISLAND;

OVIS ARIES; SPILOGALE GRACILIS AMPHIALA; UROCYON LITTORALIS; SPILOGALE GRACILIS;

EID: 0028983385     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: 14321939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328365     Document Type: Article

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