Variations in badger (meles meles) sett microclimate: Differential cub survival between main and subsidiary setts, with implications for artificial sett construction

International Journal of Ecology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kaneko, Yayoi ^a,b   Newman, Chris ^a   Buesching, Christina D ^a   MacDonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; MELES MELES;

EID: 78349236247     PISSN: 16879708     EISSN: 16879716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/859586     Document Type: Article

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