Nuthatches (Sitta europaea: Aves) in forest fragments: Hemography of a patchy population

Oecologia

Volumn 119, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 501-509

  Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Demography; Dispersal; Patchy population; Recruitment; Survival

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; PASSERINE; PATCHINESS; RECRUITMENT; SURVIVAL;

SITTA EUROPAEA;

EID: 0033000758     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050813     Document Type: Article

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