Nonlinear scaling of foraging contacts with rodent population density

Oikos

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 792-800

  Borremans, Benny ^a   Reijniers, Jonas ^a   Hughes, Nelika K ^a,b   Godfrey, Stephanie S ^c   Gryseels, Sophie ^a   Makundi, Rhodes H ^d   Leirs, Herwig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d SOKOINE UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RODENT; TERRITORIALITY;

MASTOMYS NATALENSIS; MUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84996772714     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.03623     Document Type: Article

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