Dietary intake and time budget in two desert rodents: A diurnal herbivore, Psammomys obesus, and a nocturnal granivore, Meriones crassus

Mammalia

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 57-67

  Khokhlova, Irina S ^a   Krasnov, Boris R ^a   Kuznetsov, Vladimir ^b   Sartor, Carmen E ^c   Zan, Meta ^d   Salek, Lyubomir ^e   Ghazaryan, Lusine ^f   Kam, Michael ^a   Degen, Allan A ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c LABORATORIO DE ENTOMOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^e Ministerstvo zemedelstvi   (Czech Republic)

^f YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

Author keywords

Diel activity; Diet; Meriones crassus; Psammomys obesus; Time budget

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; DESERT; DIET; GRANIVORY; HERBIVORY; RODENT; TIME ALLOCATION;

ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; GERBILLINAE; MERIONES CRASSUS; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 17644412905     PISSN: 00251461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/mamm.2005.005     Document Type: Article

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