Competition for food in urban pigeons: The cost of being juvenile

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 298-304

  Sol, Daniel ^a   Santos, David M ^b   Garcia, Josep ^b   Cuadrado, Mariano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Parc Zoologic de Barcelona   (Spain)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age specific mortality; Columba livia; Competition; Foraging; Rock Dove; Starvation; Urban pigeons

Indexed keywords

COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 0031961426     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370270     Document Type: Article

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