Do gerbils care more about competition or predation?

Oikos

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 75-84

  Abramsky, Zvika ^a   Rosenweig, Michael L ^b   Subach, Aziz ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PREDATION RISK; RODENT;

GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS ALLENBYI; GERBILLUS PYRAMIDUM; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES; TYTONIDAE;

EID: 0031782707     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546548     Document Type: Article

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