The effect of fruit abundance, conspicuousness and sugar concentration on fruit colour choice by captive silvereyes

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 229-242

  Giles, S ^a   Lill, A ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conspicuousness; Fruit choice; Relative abundance; Silvereye; Sugar content

Indexed keywords

FOOD SELECTION; FRUGIVORY; PASSERINE;

ACER PENSYLVANICUM; AMARANTHACEAE; ATRIPLEX; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; RHAGODIA; RHAGODIA PARABOLICA; SILVEREYES; ZOSTEROPIDAE; ZOSTEROPS LATERALIS;

EID: 0033199718     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522825     Document Type: Article

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