Effects of food availability on dispersal and cub sex ratio in the Mednyi Arctic fox

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 198-206

  Goltsman, Mikhail ^a   Kruchenkova, Elena P ^a,b   Sergeev, Sergei ^a   Johnson, Paul J ^b   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alopex lagopus semenovi; Arctic fox; Cub sex ratio; Dispersal; Food availability; Mednyi

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEMOGRAPHY; DISPERSAL; FOOD AVAILABILITY; ISLAND; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; KAMCHATKA; KOMANDORSKI ISLANDS; MEDNYI ISLAND; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WORLD;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; CANIDAE; VULPES;

EID: 27644463512     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0025-8     Document Type: Article

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