Repeated radicle pruning of Quercus mongolica acorns as a cache management tactic of Siberian chipmunks

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 9-14

  Yang, Yueqin ^a,b   Yi, Xianfeng ^b,c   Yu, Fei ^b  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Acorn storage; Quercus mongolica; Radicle pruning; Siberian chipmunks

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS MONGOLICA; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; TAMIAS SIBIRICUS;

EID: 84859849837     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10211-011-0102-0     Document Type: Article

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