Using artificial food patches to evaluate habitat quality for granivorous birds: An application of foraging theory

Condor

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 854-857

  Kohlmann, Stephan G ^a,b   Risenhoover, Kenneth L ^b  

^a and Evaluation   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Colinus virginianus; foraging behavior; giving up density; Northern Bobwhites; predation; supplementation

Indexed keywords

AVES; COLINUS; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0030471311     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369870     Document Type: Article

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