Grounded ground birds and surfing canopy birds: Variation of foraging stratum breadth observed in neotropical forest birds and tested with simulation models using boundary constraints

Auk

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 658-675

  Walther, Bruno A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; STRATIFICATION; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTICAL PROFILE;

ESMERALDA; VENEZUELA;

AVES;

EID: 0036656055     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089965     Document Type: Article

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