Food resource matching by foraging tits Parus spp. during spring-summer in a Mediterranean mixed forest; evidence for an ideal free distribution

Ibis

Volumn 140, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 654-660

  Díaz, Mario ^a   Illera, Juan Carlos ^b   Atienza, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT USE; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MICROHABITAT; PASSERINE;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION;

PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS CRISTATUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0031710836     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04711.x     Document Type: Article

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