Birds and wine grapes: Foraging activity causes small-scale damage patterns in single vineyards

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 511-523

  Somers, Christopher M ^a,b   Morris, Ralph D ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crop damage; Damage assessment; European starling; Foraging behaviour

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; CROP DAMAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PEST SPECIES; VINEYARD;

CANADA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PERCIDAE; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS; VITACEAE; VITIS SP.; VITIS VINIFERA;

EID: 0036084964     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2664.2002.00725.x     Document Type: Article

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