Diet of four rock-dwelling macropods in the Australian monsoon tropics

Austral Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 817-827

  Telfer, Wendy R ^a   Bowman, David M J S ^a  

^a CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carbon isotope ratio; Feeding ecology; Macropus; Petrogale; Rock wallaby

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; FEEDING ECOLOGY; MARSUPIAL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MONTANE FOREST; NICHE PARTITIONING; SYMPATRY;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

MACROPUS; MACROPUS BERNARDUS; MACROPUS ROBUSTUS; PETROGALE; PETROGALE BRACHYOTIS; PETROGALE CONCINNA;

EID: 33749555556     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2006.01644.x     Document Type: Article

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