The relative importance of nesting and foraging sites in selection of breeding territories by Townsend's Warblers

Auk

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 657-667

  Matsuoka, Steven M ^a,c   Handel, Colleen M ^b   Roby, Daniel D ^a,d   Thomas, Dana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c Alaska Biological Science Center   (United States)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAGING SITE; HABITAT SELECTION; NESTING SITE; TERRITORY SELECTION; TOWNSENDS' WARBLER;

ALASKA; USA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROICA; DENDROICA TOWNSENDI; NEARCTIC; PICEA GLAUCA; PIERIS BRASSICAE; PINACEAE;

EID: 0030982449     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089285     Document Type: Article

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