Diet of sympatric pine marten (Martes martes) and stone marten (Martes foina) identified by genotyping of DNA from faeces

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 269-284

  Posłuszny, Maciej ^a,b   Pilot, Małgorzata ^b   Goszczyński, Jacek ^a,b   Gralak, Barbara ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^b MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND ANIMAL BREEDING   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARNIVORE; DIET; DNA; FECES; FOOD; GENOTYPE; HABITAT TYPE; MUSTELID; NICHE; SYMPATRY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

AVES; HEXAPODA; MARTES FOINA; MARTES MARTES; RODENTIA;

EID: 34548813365     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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