Potatoes and the Nutritional Ecology of Crested Porcupines in a Desert Biome
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 22 (3) , 727-737
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2403225
Abstract
(1) Indian crested porcupines (Hystrix indica Kerr) in the Negev desert highlands of southern Israel forage on cultivated potatoes. Here potato tubers as porcup...This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
- Optimal foraging, the marginal value theoremPublished by Elsevier ,2004
- Vegetation patterns related to environmental factors in a Negev Desert watershedPlant Ecology, 1983
- Bears, pigs, and Plio-Pleistocene hominids: A case for the exploitation of belowground food resourcesHuman Ecology, 1980
- Spatial variations in vegetation as related to the soil moisture regime over an arid limestone hillside, northern Negev, IsraelOecologia, 1980
- A Woodpigeon (Columba palumbus) Feeding Preference Explained by a Digestive Bottle-NeckJournal of Applied Ecology, 1977