Use of a Robin's nest as a cache site for truffles by a red squirrel

Northeastern Naturalist

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 145-149

  Vernes, Karl ^a   Poirier, Nelson ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; ELAPHOMYCES GRANULATUS; FUNGI; SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS; TUBER (TRUFFLE); TURDUS MIGRATORIUS;

EID: 34247565474     PISSN: 10926194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1656/1092-6194(2007)14[145:UOARNA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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