Facilitation of sap-feeding birds by the White-fronted Woodpecker in the Monte desert, Argentina

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 402-407

  Blendinger, Pedro G ^a  

^a INSTITUTO ARGENTINO DE NIVOLOGÍA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Competition; Facilitation; Melanerpes cactorum; Monte desert; Sap feeding; White fronted Woodpecker

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELANERPES CACTORUM; PICIDAE; PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS FLEXUOSA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032959110     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370005     Document Type: Article

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