Philopatry and within-colony movements in Columbian ground squirrels

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 493-504

  Arnaud, Coline M ^a   Dobson, F Stephen ^a,b   Murie, Jan O ^c  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dispersal; home range; kinship; nepotism; philopatry; resource competition

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CANADA; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ALBERTA; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANADA; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCIURIDAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

EID: 84855866220     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05219.x     Document Type: Article

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