Habitat richness affects home range size in the red fox Vulpes vulpes

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 103-105

  Lucherini, M ^a   Lovari, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Habitat richness; Ranging behaviour; Red fox

Indexed keywords

VULPES VULPES;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; ENVIRONMENT; FOX; HABIT; HOME; NONHUMAN; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 0029669944     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(95)00018-6     Document Type: Article

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