The dietary basis for temporal partitioning: Food habits of coexisting Acomys species

Oecologia

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 123-128

  Kronfeld Schor, Noga ^a,b   Dayan, Tamar ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acomys; Food habits; Interference competition; Resource partitioning; Temporal partitioning

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; RODENT;

ISRAEL;

ACOMYS; ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ACOMYS RUSSATUS;

EID: 0032694838     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050913     Document Type: Article

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