Do competitive intraguild interactions affect space and habitat use by small carnivores in a forested landscape?

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 487-496

  St Pierre, Caroline ^a   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^a   Crête, Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; ENCOUNTER RATE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MUSTELID; POPULATION DENSITY; REFUGE;

ANIMALIA; MUSTELA; MUSTELA ERMINEA; MUSTELA FRENATA; MUSTELIDAE; MUSTELINAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 33845577439     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0906-7590.2006.04395.x     Document Type: Article

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