Behaviour and resource use of two competing vole species under shared predation risk

Oecologia

Volumn 157, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 707-715

  Trebatická, Lenka ^a   Sundell, Janne ^b   Tkadlec, Emil ^c   Ylönen, Hannu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Indirect predation effect; Least weasel; Myodes glareolus (syn. Clethrionomys glareolus); Myodes rufocanus (syn. Clethrionomys rufocanus); Shared predator

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUSTELID; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RESOURCE USE; RODENT; SPACE USE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARVICOLINAE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSTELIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSTELIDAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; CLETHRIONOMYS RUFOCANUS; MURIDAE; MUSTELA NIVALIS;

EID: 51749084631     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1099-6     Document Type: Article

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