Fitness costs of neighborhood disruption in translocations of a solitary mammal

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-123

  Shier, Debra M ^a   Swaisgood, Ronald R ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Familiarity; Fitness; Founder group; Kangaroo rat; Settlement; Social behavior

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; FAMILIARITY; FITNESS; FOUNDER EFFECT; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RODENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY; TRANSLOCATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DIPODOMYS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DIPODOMYS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; DIPODOMYS; DIPODOMYS STEPHENSI; MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84856337960     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01748.x     Document Type: Article

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