High relative humidity increases pilfering success of yellow pine chipmunks

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 796-802

  Downs, Cynthia J ^a   Vander Wall, Stephen B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative learning; Cache recovery; Olfaction; Tamias amoenus

Indexed keywords

CACHING; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD STORAGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LABORATORY METHOD; OLFACTION; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA; TAMIAS AMOENUS;

EID: 77950794353     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-119.1     Document Type: Article

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