Diet variation of common buzzards in Finland supports the alternative prey hypothesis

Ecography

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 267-274

  Reif, Vitali ^a   Tornberg, Risto ^a   Jungell, Sven ^b   Korpimäki, Erkki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Univ of Turku ^*  (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; RAPTOR; SMALL MAMMAL;

FINLAND;

AVES; BUTEO BUTEO; GALLUS GALLUS; LEPUS; MAMMALIA; MICROTUS; MICROTUS RICHARDSONI; MURIDAE; PHASIANIDAE; RAPTORES; RODENTIA; SORICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034929638     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2001.tb00199.x     Document Type: Article

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