Can shrub cover increase predation risk for a desert rodent?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 157-163

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

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; DESERT; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDATION RISK; TOWNSEND'S GROUND SQUIRREL;

CERATOIDES LANATA; SPERMOPHILUS TOWNSENDII;

EID: 0029668179     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/z96-020     Document Type: Article

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