Effects of an experimentally clumped food resource on raccoon Procyon lotor home-range use

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 25-32

  Wehtje, Morgan ^a   Gompper, Matthew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

home range; Missouri; Procyon lotor; raccoon; radio tracking; resource dispersion; volume of intersection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; PROCYON; PROCYON LOTOR;

EID: 79956137819     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/10-012     Document Type: Article

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