Quantifying the future value of cacheable food using fox squirrels (sciurus niger)

Israel Journal of Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-10

  Van Der Merwe, Marius ^a,c   Brown, Joel S ^a   Kotler, Burt P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

food caching; foraging ecology; fox squirrels; future food value; giving up densities; GUDs

Indexed keywords

CACHING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUTURE PROSPECT; PERCEPTION; RODENT;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84905511324     PISSN: 15659801     EISSN: 22244662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15659801.2014.907974     Document Type: Article

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