Aspects of the burrowing ecology of nine-banded armadillos in northern Belize

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 217-224

  Platt, S G ^a   Rainwater, T R ^b   Brewer, S W ^c  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Belize; Burrow; Commensal fauna; Dasypus novemcinctus

Indexed keywords

BURROW; BURROWING; COMMENSAL; ORIENTATION; REFUGE; TEMPERATURE;

BELIZE; CENTRAL AMERICA;

ARMADILLO; DASYPODIDAE; DASYPUS; DASYPUS NOVEMCINCTUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543050716     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1616-5047-00138     Document Type: Article

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