Why are male Columbian ground squirrels territorial?

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1049-1060

  Manno, Theodore G ^a,b   Stephen Dobson, F ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRESCOTT COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 53749107308     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01556.x     Document Type: Article

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