Moonlight and shelter cause differential seed selection and removal by rodents

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 717-723

  Perea, Ramón ^a   González, Rocío ^a   San Miguel, Alfonso ^a   Gil, Luis ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Apodemus sylvaticus; Foraging ecology; Predation risk; Quercus; Scatter hoarding; Seed size; Wood mouse

Indexed keywords

CACHING; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FOOD SELECTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HANDLING TIME; LIGHT EFFECT; MICROHABITAT; PREDATION RISK; RODENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SEED SIZE; SHELTER; SIZE SELECTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSLOCATION;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; QUERCUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 80052754040     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.001     Document Type: Article

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