Seasonal variation in the range areas of the diurnal rodent Octodon degus

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 458-466

  Quirici, Verónica ^a   Castro, Rodrigo A ^a   Ortiz Tolhuysen, Liliana ^a   Chesh, Adrian S ^b   Burger, Joseph Robert ^b   Miranda, Eduardo ^c   Corts, Arturo ^c   Hayes, Loren D ^b   Ebensperger, Luis A ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT MONROE   (United States)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE BIOLOGÍA   (Chile)

Author keywords

Breeding activity; Degus; Food availability; Range size; Semiarid environment

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARID ENVIRONMENT; BREEDING POPULATION; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD QUALITY; HERB; MATING SUCCESS; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SUMMER; TRACKING; VEGETATION COVER;

CHILE;

ANIMALIA; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77951280495     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/08-MAMM-A-337.1     Document Type: Article

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