High population density in bank voles stimulates food hoarding after breeding

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1483-1487

  Mappes, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING ASEASON; HOARDING BEHAVIOUR; POPULATION DENSITY; RODENT;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032104389     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0684     Document Type: Article

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