Food preferences and mound-building behaviour of the mound-building mice Mus spicilegus

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 863-870

  Hölzl, Michaela ^a   Krištofík, Ján ^b   Darolová, Alžbeta ^b   Hoi, Herbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Food storage; Mus spicilegus; Optimal foraging; Seed preference

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD STORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIMITING FACTOR; RODENT; SEED;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; MALE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

ANIMALS; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; MICE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; SEEDS;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHUS; ANIMALIA; CHENOPODIUM; MUS; MUS SPICILEGUS; RODENTIA; SETARIA (PLANT);

EID: 80054820780     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0837-5     Document Type: Article

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