Risky business: Do native rodents use habitat and odor cues to manage predation risk in australian deserts?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Spencer, Emma E ^a   Crowther, Mathew S ^a   Dickman, Christopher R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAT; CHEMICAL CUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FOX; HABITAT; LOCOMOTION; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; NOTOMYS ALEXIS; ODOR; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; RODENT; ANIMAL; ASSOCIATION; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GEOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); MURIDAE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; RISK FACTOR; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; AUSTRALIA; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CATS; CUES; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; FOXES; GEOGRAPHY; MOVEMENT; MURIDAE; ODORS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84896298235     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090566     Document Type: Article

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