Relationships between frequency of mixed-species flocks, weather and insect activity in a montane cloud forest in Ecuador

Ibis

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 466-470

  Poulsen, Bent Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

CLOUD FOREST; FLOCKING; MIXED-SPECIES FLOCK; RAINFALL; WEATHER;

ECUADOR;

EID: 0029662642     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb08066.x     Document Type: Article

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