Interactions between Steller's jays and yellow pine chipmunks over scatter-hoarded sugar pine seeds

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 365-374

  Thayer, Theodore C ^a   Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache pilferage; Competition in distantly related taxa; Food caching; Indirect interactions; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

CACHING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MEMORY; OLFACTION; SEED DISPERSAL;

CYANOCITTA STELLERI; PINUS LAMBERTIANA; TAMIAS AMOENUS; UNDETERMINED SCIURIDAE 'CHIPMUNKS';

EID: 16244387966     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2005.00932.x     Document Type: Article

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