Fluctuating populations of House Wrens and Bewick's Wrens in foothills of the western Sierra Nevada of California

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 219-229

  Verner, Jared ^a   Purcell, Kathryn L ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bewick's Wren; House Wren; Interspecific competition; Population trends; Precipitation; Thryomanes bewickii; Troglodytes aedon

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS; RIPARIA; THRYOMANES BEWICKII; TROGLODYTES AEDON; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0032964954     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369985     Document Type: Article

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