Determining habitat quality for the cooperatively breeding Rufous Treecreeper, Climacteris rufa

Austral Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 229-237

  Luck, Gary W ^a,b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Fitness; Habitat use; Nest site selection; Rufous Treecreeper; Territory selection

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NEST SITE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

CLIMACTERIS RUFA;

EID: 0002315189     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2002.01173.x     Document Type: Article

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