Spatial organization in female golden-mantled ground squirrels

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 162-168

  Jesmer, Brett R ^a   Van Vuren, Dirk H ^a   Wilson, James A ^b   Kelt, Douglas A ^a   Johnson, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; DISPERSAL; FEMALE; RADIOTELEMETRY; RANGE SIZE; RODENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS LATERALIS;

EID: 78650881487     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031-165.1.162     Document Type: Article

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