Overlap of temporal niches among four sympatric species of shrews

Acta Theriologica

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 175-188

  Rychlik, Leszek ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Circadian activity; Interspecific competition; Neomys; Niche separation; Sorex

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

NEOMYS; NEOMYS ANOMALUS; NEOMYS FODIENS; SOREX; SOREX ARANEUS; SOREX MINUTUS; SORICIDAE;

EID: 22344444472     PISSN: 00017051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03194481     Document Type: Article

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