Behavioral responses of territorial red squirrels to natural and experimental variation in population density

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 865-878

  Dantzer, Ben ^a   Boutin, Stan ^b   Humphries, Murray M ^c   McAdam, Andrew G ^a,d  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Food supplementation; Playbacks; Population density; Population regulation; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION REGULATION; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

SCIURIDAE; TAMIASCIURUS; TAMIASCIURUS HUDSONICUS;

EID: 84861228089     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1335-2     Document Type: Article

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