Temporal partitioning of a floral resource by territorial hummingbirds

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Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 647-653

  Cotton, Peter A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; FOOD SUPPLY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRITORIALITY;

TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 0031708949     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04710.x     Document Type: Article

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