Cache management by small mammals: Experimental evidence for the significance of acorn-embryo excision

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 35-42

  Steele, M A ^a   Turner, G ^a   Smallwood, P D ^a   Wolff, J O ^a   Radillo, J ^a  

^a WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Caching; Mexico; Pennsylvania; Quercus; S. carolinensis; Sciurus aureogaster; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

CACHING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEED;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CAROLINENSIS; MAMMALIA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS RUBRA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS AUREOGASTER; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS;

EID: 0035095250     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082<0035:CMBSME>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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