Behavioural responses of Eurasian treecreepers, Certhia familiaris, to competition with ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1283-1290

  Aho, Teija ^a,b   Kuitunen, Markku ^a   Suhonen, Jukka ^a   Jäntti, Ari ^a   Hakkari, Tomi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; TREECREEPER; WOOD ANT;

ARTHROPODA; CERTHIA FAMILIARIS; FORMICA; FORMICA TUFA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PICEA;

EID: 0030690237     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0547     Document Type: Article

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