Food patchiness, territory overlap and social systems: An experiment with dunnocks Prunella modularis

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 837-846

  Davies, N B ^a   Hartley, I R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

alpine accentor; dunnock; food dispersion; social system; territory

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ACCENTOR; DOMINANCE HIERARCHY; DUNNOCK; POLYGYNANDRY; SCRUB; TERRITORIALITY;

PRUNELLA COLLARIS; PRUNELLA MODULARIS;

EID: 0030302869     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/5681     Document Type: Article

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