Diet of an opportunistically frugivorous carnivore, Martes flavigula, in subtropical forest

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 611-619

  Zhou, You Bing ^a   Newman, Chris ^b   Buesching, Christina D ^b   Zalewski, Andrzej ^c   Kaneko, Yayoi ^d   MacDonald, David W ^b   Xie, Zong Qiang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; diet; food resource exploitation; frugivory; marten; Martes flavigula; subtropical forest; switching

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; GENERALIST; MUSTELID; OMNIVORY; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SYNCHRONY; TROPICAL FOREST;

CHINA;

CARNIVORA; MAMMALIA; MARTES FLAVIGULA;

EID: 79958846589     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-296.1     Document Type: Article

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