Food selection by adult red foxes Vulpes vulpes during a water vole decline

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 283-288

  Weber, Jean Marc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Arvicola terrestris scherman; Food selection; Population cycle; Red fox; Vulpes vulpes; Water vole

Indexed keywords

ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS SCHERMAN; CANIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LAGOMORPHA; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0030437925     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/wlb.1996.032     Document Type: Article

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