Does food-searching ability determine habitat selection? Foraging in sand of three species of gerbilline rodents

Ecography

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 122-129

  Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Shenbrot, Georgy I ^a   Rios, Luis E ^b   Lizurume, Maria E ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE DE GUATEMALA   (Guatemala)

^c Min Prod Govt of the Chubut Prov   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; HABITAT SELECTION; RODENT; SAND;

ISRAEL; NEGEV DESERT;

DASYURUS; GERBILLINAE; GERBILLUS DASYURUS; GERBILLUS GERBILLUS; GERBILLUS HENLEYI; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034082648     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2000.tb00267.x     Document Type: Article

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