Long-term dynamics of space and summer resource use in the alpine marmot (marmota marmota l.)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 309-327

  Boero, Daniela Lenti ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b Fac di Scienze della Formazione   (Italy)

^c Lab Bioacustica Analisi C   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ground squirrel; Home range dynamics; Marmota marmota; Resource inheritance; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

HABITAT USE; HOME RANGE; RESOURCE USE; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GRAN PARADISO NATIONAL PARK; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; MARMOTA; MARMOTA MARMOTA MARMOTA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642436439     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2003.9522659     Document Type: Article

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