Black-footed ferrets and Siberian polecats as ecological surrogates and ecological equivalents

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 710-720

  Biggins, Dean E ^a   Hanebury, Louis R ^a,c   Miller, Brian J ^a,d   Powell, Roger A ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Western Area Power Administration   (United States)

^d Wind River Ranch   (United States)

Author keywords

circadian rhythm; ecological equivalent; ecological surrogate; intraguild predation; moon; Mustela eversmanii; Mustela nigripes; predator avoidance

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CANID; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DIEL MIGRATION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; MUSTELID; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

SIBERIA;

AVES; CANIS LATRANS; FALCONIFORMES; MUSTELA; MUSTELA EVERSMANNII; MUSTELA NIGRIPES; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 80051878165     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-S-110.1     Document Type: Article

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