Behavioral adaptation of Pallas's squirrels to germination schedule and tannins in acorns

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1050-1055

  Xiao, Zhishu ^a   Gao, Xu ^a,b   Jiang, Mingmin ^a,c   Zhang, Zhibin ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Behavioral decisions; Germination schedule; Long term food supply; Scatter hoarding; Tannins; Tree squirrels

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CACHING; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FOOD PREFERENCE; GERMINATION; PROBABILITY; RODENT; SEED; TANNIN;

ANIMALIA; CALLOSCIURUS ERYTHRAEUS; CASTANEA HENRYI; FUNGI; QUERCUS VARIABILIS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS;

EID: 70349462919     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp096     Document Type: Article

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