Diet of a Relict Population of the Eastern Woodrat in Nebraska

Authors

Hugh H. Genoways, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Patricia W. Freeman, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Mary K. Clausen, La Vista, NE

Date of this Version

September 1997

Comments

Published in The Prairie Naturalist 29:3 (September 1997), pp. 171–178. Published by the Great Plains Natural Science Society; used by permission.
http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/pn/prairienat.htm

Abstract

The relict population of Neotoma floridana occurring along the Niobrara River in north-central Nebraska was found to have a diet composed of 38 types of food items of which 37 types were plants. Unique features of the summer diet of this population were a higher than expected use of red cedar (Juniperus virginiana) and invertebrates as food items.