Effects of Food Availability on Space and Refuge Use by a Neotropical Scatterhoarding Rodent

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 88-93

  Emsens, Willem Jan ^a,b   Suselbeek, Lennart ^a   Hirsch, Ben T ^c,d   Kays, Roland ^d,e   Winkelhagen, Annemarie J S ^a   Jansen, Patrick A ^a,d,f  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astrocaryum standleyanum; Central American agouti; Dasyprocta punctata; Food limitation; Home range; Panama; Predation risk; Radio telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUIT; HOME RANGE; NEOTROPICAL REGION; PREDATION RISK; RADIOTELEMETRY; REFUGE; RODENT; SEED; SPACE USE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA];

ANIMALIA; ASTROCARYUM; ASTROCARYUM STANDLEYANUM; DASYPROCTA; DASYPROCTA PUNCTATA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84871921767     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2012.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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