Experiments on the limitation of bird numbers by territorial behaviour

Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 1992, Pages 129-173

  Newton, I ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES;

BIRD; HABITAT QUALITY; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; BREEDING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 0026616696     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.1992.tb01017.x     Document Type: Article

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