Effects of habitat fragmentation on provisioning rates, diet and breeding success in two species of tit (great tit and blue tit)

Oecologia

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 522-530

  Nour, Nadia ^a   Currie, David ^a,b   Matthysen, Erik ^a   Van Damme, Raoul ^a   Dhondt, André A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding success; Diet; Forest size; Parus spp; Provisioning

Indexed keywords

DIET; FOOD SUPPLY; FOREST; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PROVISIONING RATE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0031836507     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050476     Document Type: Article

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