Nutritional value and diet preference of arboreal lichens and hypogeous fungi for small mammals in the Rocky Mountains

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 851-862

  Dubay, S A ^a,b   Hayward, G D ^a   Martinez Del Rio C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; FUNGUS; LICHEN; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; NUTRITIVE VALUE; RODENT;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

ANIMALIA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; FUNGI; GLAUCOMYS SABRINUS; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; PTEROMYINI; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 49249096662     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z08-054     Document Type: Article

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