Habitat separation of sympatric microcebus spp. in the dry spiny forest of South-Eastern madagascar

Folia Primatologica

Volumn 82, Issue 4-5, 2012, Pages 212-223

  Rakotondranary, S Jacques ^a   Ganzhorn, Jörg U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Community ecology; Competition; Habitat selection; Lemurs; Microcebus; Primates; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MADAGASCAR; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TREE;

ANIMALS; CHEIROGALEIDAE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MADAGASCAR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES;

LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS; MICROCEBUS GRISEORUFUS; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84859218283     PISSN: 00155713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000334816     Document Type: Article

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