Competition between Eurasian otter Lutra lutra and American mink Mustela vison probed by niche shift

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-26

  Bonesi, Laura ^a   Chanin, Paul ^b   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b North View Collage   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; HABITAT SELECTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUSTELID; NICHE OVERLAP; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

AVES; CARNIVORA; LUTRA; LUTRA LUTRA; LUTRINAE; MAMMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA VISON; MUSTELIDAE;

EID: 3042676382     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12763.x     Document Type: Article

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