Competitive asymmetries in the use of supplementary food by the endangered Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  López Bao, José V ^a   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a   Palomares, Francisco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; LYNX PARDINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERRITORIALITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LYNX; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

LYNX; LYNX PARDINUS;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BODY WEIGHT; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; LYNX; MALE;

EID: 70449553516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007610     Document Type: Article

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