Effects of male removal on female foraging behavior in the Eurasian treecreeper

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-53

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b Division of Population Biology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Certhia familiaris; Foraging behavior; Male removal; Niche shift; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; NICHE PARTITIONING; TREECREEPER;

FINLAND;

CERTHIA FAMILIARIS;

EID: 0030791433     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050362     Document Type: Article

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