Cheek pouch capacities and loading rates of heteromyid rodents

Oecologia

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 21-28

  Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a   Longland, William S ^a,b   Pyare, Sanjay ^a   Veech, Joseph A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Allometry; Body size; Food transport; Locomotion; Seed hoarding

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHEEK POUCH CAPACITY; FORAGING ECOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALIA; CHAETODIPUS; DIPODOMY; DIPODOMYS; HETEROMYIDAE; JARAVA; MACROPUS SP.; ORYZA SATIVA (INDICA CULTIVAR-GROUP); PEROGNATHUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0031966461     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050349     Document Type: Article

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