Can aggression be the force driving temporal separation between competing common and golden spiny mice?

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 48-53

  Pinter Wollman, Noa ^a,b   Dayan, Tamar ^a   Eilam, David ^a   Kronfeld Schor, Noga ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acomys; Aggressive behavior; Interference competition; Resource exploitation; Spiny mice; Temporal partitioning

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PARTITIONING; RODENT;

ACOMYS; ACOMYS CAHIRINUS; ACOMYS RUSSATUS; MUS SAXICOLA; RODENTIA;

EID: 33644605608     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/04-MAMM-A-194R2.1     Document Type: Article

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