Great Tit Parus major survival and the beech-crop cycle

Ardea

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 99-108

  Perdeck, Albert C ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a   Van Balen, Johan H ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Food limitation; Food provisioning; Parus major; Population dynamics; Survival

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SEASON; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; PASSERINE; SURVIVAL; WINTER;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0033934108     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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