Coexisting desert rodents differ in selection of microhabitats for cache placement and pilferage

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1261-1268

  Swartz, Maryke J ^a,b   Jenkins, Stephen H ^a   Dochtermann, Ned A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

cache placement; coexistence; Dipodomys merriami; Heteromyidae; Microdipodops pallidus; microhabitat; Perognathus longimembris; pilferage; scatter hoarding; seed caching

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COEXISTENCE; DESERT; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRASS; HETEROGENEITY; HOME RANGE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MICROHABITAT; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RODENT; SEED; SELECTION; SHRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ACHNATHERUM HYMENOIDES; ANIMALIA; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS MERRIAMI; HETEROMYIDAE; MICRODIPODOPS PALLIDUS; PEROGNATHUS LONGIMEMBRIS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77958468116     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/09-MAMM-A-280.1     Document Type: Article

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