Segregating the effects of seed traits and common ancestry of hardwood trees on eastern gray squirrel foraging decisions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Sundaram, Mekala ^a   Willoughby, Janna R ^a   Lichti, Nathanael I ^a   Steele, Michael A ^b   Swihart, Robert K ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WILKES UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; LIPID; TANNIN; TANNIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BETULACEAE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAGACEAE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HARDWOOD TREE; JUGLANDACEAE; LIPID COMPOSITION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT SEED; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONTENT; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SEED KERNEL; SEED SIZE; TREE; ANIMAL; APPETITE; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

BETULACEAE; FAGACEAE; JUGLANDACEAE; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; SCIURIDAE; SEEDS; TANNINS; TREES;

EID: 84938297762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130942     Document Type: Article

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