Central place foraging by beavers (castor canadensis) in a complex lake habitat

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 62-73

  Raffel, Thomas R ^b   Smith, Nicole ^c   Cortright, Catherine ^d   Gatz, A John ^a  

^a OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Zoo New England   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERING; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; LAKE; PLANT COMMUNITY; PREDICTION; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; STAND STRUCTURE;

CASTOR CANADENSIS; CASTORIDAE;

EID: 67650983238     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-162.1.62     Document Type: Article

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