First results on the feeding ecology of the Transcaucasian water shrew Neomys teres (Soricomorpha: Soricidae) from Armenia

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 84, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1853-1858

  Churchfield, Sara ^a   Rychlik, Leszek ^b,e   Yavrouyan, Eduard ^c   Turlejski, Kris ^d  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (Armenia)

^d NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^e ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; MAMMALS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ALIMENTARY TRACTS; COLEOPTERA; OPILIONES; TRICHOPTERA LARVAE;

ECOLOGY;

DIET; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INSECTIVORE; MAMMAL; MOUNTAIN REGION; PREY PREFERENCE;

ARMENIA; ASIA; EURASIA; WEST ASIA;

ARANEAE; CABRERA; COLEOPTERA; CRUSTACEA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICIDAE; NEOMYS ANOMALUS; NEOMYS FODIENS; NEOMYS TERES; OPILIONES; SOREX PALUSTRIS; SORICIDAE; SORICOMORPHA; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 34247172238     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z06-172     Document Type: Article

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