Long-term resource variation and group size: A large-sample field test of the Resource Dispersion Hypothesis

BMC Ecology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages

  Johnson, Dominic D P ^a   Baker, Samantha ^a   Morecroft, Michael D ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELES MELES; TAXIDIINAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; CARNIVORA; CATERING SERVICE; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; OLIGOCHAETA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMASS; CARNIVORA; DIET; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENT; FOOD SUPPLY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 3042688766     PISSN: 14726785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-1-2     Document Type: Article

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