Resource distribution, female home range dispersion and male spatial interactions: Group structure in a solitary carnivore

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1211-1227

  Gehrt, Stanley D ^a   Fritzell, Erik K ^b  

^a Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUP STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; RACCOON; RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PATTERN;

TEXAS; USA; WELDER WILDLIFE REFUGE;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 0032078085     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0657     Document Type: Article

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