Reproductive behaviour and operational sex ratio in Richardson's ground squirrels

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 743-758

  Michener, Gail R ^a   McLean, Ian G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AGGRESSION; HOME RANGE; MATING BEHAVIOUR; OPERATIONAL SEX RATIO; RICHARDSON'S GROUND SQUIRREL;

SPERMOPHILUS RICHARDSONII;

EID: 0030251207     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0219     Document Type: Article

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