Factors influencing seasonal and monthly changes in the group size of chital or axis deer in southern India

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 203-218

  Raman, T R Shankar ^a,b  

^a Centre for Ecological Research and Conservation   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Axis axis; Grassland; Grouping behaviour; Population density; Rainfall; Scrubland; Seasonality; Tropical dry evergreen forest

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLIMATE; DEER; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CERVIDAE; CERVUS AXIS;

EID: 0030804814     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02704733     Document Type: Article

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