Home ranges, time budgets and food-tree use in a high-density tropical population of greater gliders, Petauroides volans minor (Pseudocheiridae: Marsupialia)

Wildlife Research

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 401-419

  Comport, Steven S ^a,b   Ward, Simon J ^a,c   Foley, William J ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS ACMENOIDES; METATHERIA; PETAUROIDES VOLANS; PSEUDOCHEIRIDAE; MYRTACEAE; PETAUROIDES VOLANS MINOR;

GREATER GLIDER; TIME BUDGET;

EID: 0029662645     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR9960401     Document Type: Article

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