Food habits and resource partitioning between grey and culpeo foxes in southeastern Argentine Patagonia

Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 97-103

  Zapata, Sonia C ^a   Travaini, Alejandro ^a   Delibes, Miguel ^b   Martínez Peck, Rolando ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Argentina; Diet; L. culpaeus; Lycalopex griseus; Patagonia; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CANIDAE; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; PSEUDALOPEX; PSEUDALOPEX CULPAEUS; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 27644534556     PISSN: 01650521     EISSN: 17445140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01650520500129836     Document Type: Article

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