Use of Aguieira dam by Eurasian otters in Central Portugal

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 365-377

  Pedroso, Nuno M ^a   Sales Luís, Teresa ^a   Santos Reis, Margarida ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Diet; Lutra lutra; Marking behaviour; Reservoir; Spatial use; Tributaries

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DAM CONSTRUCTION; DIET; MODELING; MUSTELID; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREY AVAILABILITY; RESERVOIR; VEGETATION COVER; WATER LEVEL;

AGUIEIRA DAM; COIMBRA [PORTUGAL]; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; LEPOMIS GIBBOSUS; LUTRA LUTRA; LUTRINAE;

EID: 40849127164     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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