Intraspecific competition influences food return-predation risk trade-off by white-crowned sparrows

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 642-650

  Slotow, Robert ^a,b   Paxinos, Ellen ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Aggression; Dominance; Food return; Foraging; Predation; Trade off; Whitecrowned Sparrow; Zonotrichia leucophrys

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIDAE; ZONOTRICHIA LEUCOPHRYS;

EID: 0030791163     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370476     Document Type: Article

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