Home Range, activity and sociality of a top predator, the dingo: A test of the resource dispersion hypothesis

Ecography

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 914-925

  Newsome, Thomas M ^a,b   Ballard, Guy Anthony ^c   Dickman, Christopher R ^a   Fleming, Peter J S ^d   Van De Ven, Remy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^d NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; DISPERSION; DIURNAL ACTIVITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; GROUP SIZE; HOME RANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS DINGO; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 84880043717     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2013.00056.x     Document Type: Article

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