Prickly coexistence or blunt competition? Opuntia refugia in an invaded rodent community

Oecologia

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 225-236

  Gregory, Stephen David ^a,b   MacDonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Competition refuge; Diet partitioning; Invasive species; Nesoryzomys swarthi; Rattus rattus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COEXISTENCE; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCE; NICHE PARTITIONING; REFUGE; REFUGIUM; RODENT; SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATE; MALE; OPUNTIA; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FECES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; INVERTEBRATES; MALE; OPUNTIA; RODENTIA; SEASONS;

NESORYZOMYS SWARTHI; OPUNTIA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 58549087576     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1196-6     Document Type: Article

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