Should I stay or should I go? The influence of handling by researchers on den use in an arboreal nocturnal rodent

Ethology

Volumn 119, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 848-859

  Kukalová, Monika ^a   Gazárková, Anežka ^a   Adamík, Peter ^a,b  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b Museum of Natural History   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DEN; DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCE; NEST BOX; NOCTURNAL ACTIVITY; RODENT; TREE;

ANIMALIA; MYOXIDAE; MYOXUS GLIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84883458405     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eth.12126     Document Type: Article

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