Dietary niche separation between sympatric free-ranging domestic dogs and Indian foxes in central India

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1058-1065

  Vanak, Abi Tamim ^a   Gompper, Matthew E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Canis familiaris; Dietary overlap; Human derived food; Interference competition; Vulpes bengalensis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CANID; DIET; DIETARY OVERLAP; DOMESTIC SPECIES; INTERFERENCE COMPETITION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; SYMPATRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; RODENTIA; VULPES BENGALENSIS; ZIZIPHUS;

EID: 70350510065     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-107.1     Document Type: Article

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