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Energy or information? The role of seed availability for reproductive decisions in edible dormice
The edible dormouse is a specialized seed predator which is highly adapted to the fluctuations of food availability caused by mast seeding of beech and oak trees. Dormice produce young just in time with maximum food availability, and can completely skip reproduction in years with a lack of seeding....
Autores principales: | Lebl, Karin, Kürbisch, Klaus, Bieber, Claudia, Ruf, Thomas |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer-Verlag
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820667/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19943051 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00360-009-0425-6 |
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