Habitat and patch use by hyraxes: There's no place like home?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 82-88

  Kotler, Burt P ^a   Brown, Joel S ^b   Knight, Michael H ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Central place foraging; Coloniality; Habitat selection; Hyrax; Optimal patch use; Predatory risk

Indexed keywords

PROCAVIA CAPESIS;

EID: 0032968252     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.22053.x     Document Type: Article

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