Climate and the individual: Inter-annual variation in the autumnal activity of the European badger (Meles meles)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Noonan, Michael J ^a   Markham, Andrew ^a   Newman, Chris ^a   Trigoni, Niki ^a   Buesching, Christina D ^a   Ellwood, Stephen A ^a   Macdonald, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ACCELEROMETRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMIDITY; MELES MELES; NOCTURNAL ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUNLIGHT;

ANIMAL NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ANIMALS; EUROPE; HUMIDITY; MUSTELIDAE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898475588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083156     Document Type: Article

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