The effects of prey size on diet differentiation of seven passerine species at two spring stopover sites

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Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 25-34

  Marchetti, Chiara ^a   Locatelli, Daria Patrizia ^b   Van Noordwijk, Arie J ^c   Baldaccini, Natale Emilio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Instituto di Ingegneria Agraria   (Italy)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY DIFFERENTIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; MIGRATING BIRD; PASSERING; PREY SIZE;

ITALY; SARDINIA;

COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; FICEDULA HYPOLEUCA; HYMENOPTERA; MUSCICAPA STRIATA; PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SYLVIA BORIN; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 0031975364     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04537.x     Document Type: Article

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