Increasing nest success in the yellow-shouldered blackbird Agelaius xanthomus in southwest Puerto Rico

Biological Conservation

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 259-263

  López Ortiz, Ricardo ^a   Ventosa Febles, Eduardo A ^a   Reitsma, Leonard R ^b   Hengstenberg, Derek ^b   Deluca, William ^b  

^a Programa de Especies Protegidas   (Puerto Rico)

^b New England Institute for Landscape Ecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Agelaius; Brood parasitism; Molothrus; Nests; Puerto Rico

Indexed keywords

NESTING; PARASITISM; PREDATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

PUERTO RICO;

AGELAIUS; AGELAIUS XANTHOMUS; DOMINGOA HAEMATOCHILA; GALLUS GALLUS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 0036883831     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00122-2     Document Type: Article

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