Diet and food availability: implications for foraging and dispersal of Prince of Wales northern flying squirrels across managed landscapes

• Published in: Journal of Mammalogy
• Main Authors: Flaherty, Elizabeth A., Ben-David, Merav, Smith, Winston P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2010
• Subjects: Feature Articles; Prince of Wales Island; Alaska
• Online Access: http://jmammal.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/91/1/79; https://doi.org/10.1644/09-MAMM-A-014R.1

Where dispersal is energetically expensive, feeding and food availability can influence dispersal success. The endemic Prince of Wales northern flying squirrel ( Glaucomys sabrinus griseifrons ) inhabits a landscape mosaic of old-growth, 2nd-growth, and clear-cut stands, with the latter 2 representi...