Does the dominant Nuthatch Sitta europaea affect the foraging behaviour of the subordinate Treecreeper Certhia brachydactyla in small forest fragments?

Ardea

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 259-268

  Nour, Nadia ^a   Suhonen, Jukka ^b   Van Damme, Raoul ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a   Dhondt, André A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity   (United States)

Author keywords

Certhia brachydactyla; Competitive release; Interaction; Niche overlap; Sitta europaea

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; NUTHATCH; SHORT-TOED TREECREEPER;

CERTHIA BRACHYDACTYLA; SITTA EUROPAEA;

EID: 0031415422     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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