Habitat selection in a seasonally variable environment: Test of the isodar theory with the fat sand rat, Psammomys obesus, in the Negev Desert, Israel

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 359-365

  Shenbrot, Georgy ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; HABITAT SELECTION; PHENOLOGY; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

ANABASIS; ATRIPLEX; ATRIPLEX HALIMUS; GERBILLINAE; PSAMMOMYS; PSAMMOMYS OBESUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 4043125456     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13123.x     Document Type: Article

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