Non-territorial 'floaters' in great horned owls: Space use during a cyclic peak of snowshoe hares

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 901-912

  Rohner, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; BREEDING DENSITY; GREAT HORNED OWL; HOME RANGE; TERRITORIALITY;

BUBO VIRGINIANUS; LEPUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0031128703     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0381     Document Type: Article

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