Home-range dynamics in a solitary subterranean rodent

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-226

  Šklíba, Jan ^a   Šumbera, Radim ^a   Chitaukali, Wilbert N ^b   Burda, Hynek ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFROTROPICAL REGION; BURROW; DRY SEASON; RODENT; TRACKING;

ANIMALIA; BATHYERGIDAE; HELIOPHOBIUS ARGENTEOCINEREUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 59149087951     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01604.x     Document Type: Article

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