Character displacement and release in the small Indian mongoose, Herpestes javanicus

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2086-2099

  Simberloff, Daniel ^a   Dayan, Tamar ^b   Jones, Carl ^c   Ogura, Go ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MAURITIAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION   (Mauritius)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological introduction; Character displacement; Character release; Geographic variation; Herpestes; Island population; Mongoose; Sexual size dimorphism

Indexed keywords

INTRODUCED SPECIES; MAMMAL; MORPHOLOGY; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM;

EID: 0033864074     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/177098     Document Type: Article

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