The smell of new competitors: The response of american mink, mustela vison, to the odours of otter, lutra lutra and polecat, m. putorius

Ethology

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 421-428

  Harrington, Lauren A ^a   Harrington, Andrew L ^a   MacDonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLONIZATION; CONSPECIFIC; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MUSTELID; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; SECRETION;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; THAMES VALLEY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

CARNIVORA; LUTRA LUTRA; LUTRINAE; MUSTELA; MUSTELA PUTORIUS; MUSTELA VISON;

EID: 64949176674     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01593.x     Document Type: Article

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