Local environmental factors affect reproductive investment in female edible dormice

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 926-933

  Lebl, Karin ^a   Rotter, Birgit ^a   Kürbisch, Klaus ^a   Bieber, Claudia ^a   Ruf, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

delayed maturity; environmental factors; food availability; Glis glis; pulsed resources; reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BODY MASS; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOME RANGE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER SIZE; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTIVE COST; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RODENT; SEED PRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRIA; LOWER AUSTRIA; WIENERWALD;

FAGUS; MYOXIDAE; MYOXUS GLIS;

EID: 80054730426     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-225.1     Document Type: Article

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