Territory and group sizes in Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber): Echoes of settlement and reproduction?

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 597-607

  Campbell, Ruairidh D ^a,f   Rosell, Frank ^b,c   Nolet, Bart A ^d   Dijkstra, Vilmar A A ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^e Vereniging Voor Zoogdierkunde en Zoogdierbescherming (VZZ)   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Delayed dispersal; Habitat quality; Prospective resource defence; Resource depletion; Territorial inheritance; Territory size

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; GROUP SIZE; HABITAT QUALITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; CASTOR FIBER; CASTORIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 26944455547     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0942-6     Document Type: Article

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