Contrasting sociality in two widespread, generalist, mustelid genera, Meles and Martes

Mammal Study

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 169-188

  Newman, Chris ^a   Zhou, You Bing ^b   Buesching, Christina D ^a   Kaneko, Yayoi ^c   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^c TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Food security; RDH; Sociobiology; Spatial group; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

MARTES; MELES; MUSTELIDAE; TAXIDIINAE;

EID: 84862960376     PISSN: 13434152     EISSN: 13486160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3106/041.036.0401     Document Type: Review

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