Reproductive success and parental effort of Tengmalm's owls: Effects of spatial and temporal variation in habitat quality

Ecoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-42

  Hakkarainen, Harri ^a   Koivunen, Vesa ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Habitat quality; Parental effort; Reproductive success; Tengmalm's owl; Vole cycle

Indexed keywords

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CLETHRIONOMYS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MURIDAE; STRIGIFORMES;

HABITAT QUALITY; PARENTAL EFFORT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TENGMALM'S OWL;

FINLAND;

EID: 0031407887     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.1997.11682374     Document Type: Article

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