Environmental correlates of badger social spacing across Europe

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 411-425

  Johnson, Dominic D P ^a   Jetz, Walter ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a C 406 Cité Universitaire   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Badgers; Densities; Geographical variation; Intraspecific variation; Meles meles; Resource dispersion hypothesis; Sociality

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MUSTELID; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EUROPE;

MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036238017     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.2002.00680.x     Document Type: Article

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