Phase- and season-dependent changes in social behaviour in cyclic vole populations
Abstract Background Social behaviour has been linked to hypotheses explaining multiannual population cycles of small rodents. In this paper we aimed to test empirically that the degree of space sharing among adult breeding female voles is higher during the increase phase than in the crash phase, and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-01-01
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| Series: | BMC Ecology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12898-019-0222-3 |