Communal nesting in asocial Abert's squirrels: The role of social thermoregulation and breeding strategy

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-154

  Edelman, Andrew J ^a,b   Koprowski, John L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SEASON; COLONIAL BREEDING; ENDOTHERMY; MATING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; THERMOREGULATION;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; PINALENO MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS ABERTI;

EID: 33846900968     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01310.x     Document Type: Article

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