Hoarding of pulsed resources: Temporal variations in egg-caching by arctic fox

Ecoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 268-276

  Careau, Vincent ^a,d   Lecomte, Nicolas ^b   Běty, Joël ^c   Giroux, Jean François ^a   Gauthier, Gilles ^b   Berteaux, Dominique ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE D ÉTUDES NORDIQUES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic goose colony; Food storing; Lemming cycle; Predator response

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; CACHING; CANID; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HATCHING; NESTING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY SELECTION; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANIMALIA; ANSER; ATLANTICUS; AVES; CANIDAE; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS;

EID: 48049119957     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2980/15-2-3097     Document Type: Article

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