Surviving on cached foods - The energetics of egg-caching by arctic foxes

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1217-1223

  Careau, V ^a,d   Giroux, J F ^a   Gauthier, G ^b   Berteaux, D ^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

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BIOENERGETICS; CACHING; CANID; DIGESTIBILITY; EGG PREDATION; METABOLISM; NUTRITION; SURVIVAL; WATERFOWL; WINTER;

ALOPEX LAGOPUS; ANSER; AVES; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS ATLANTICA; VULPES LAGOPUS;

EID: 54349102357     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z08-102     Document Type: Article

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