Food habits of the coypu, Myocastor coypus, and its impact on aquatic vegetation in a freshwater habitat of NW Italy

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 269-277

  Prigioni, Claudio ^a   Balestrieri, Alessandro ^a   Remonti, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquatic macrophytes; Food habits; Freshwater habitat; Italy; Myocastor coypus

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; LOMBARDY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TICINO PARK; WORLD;

CALLITRICHE STAGNALIS; ELODEA; MYOCASTOR COYPUS; MYRIOPHYLLUM SPICATUM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; ROBINIA; ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA;

EID: 27644568157     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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