Small habitat islands are inferior breeding habitats but are used by some great tits - Competition or ignorance?

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1467-1479

  Loman, Jon ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural habitat; Breeding site choice; Competition; Fragmented habitat; Landscape ecology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; BREEDING SITE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PASSERINE;

PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0037572186     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023629810919     Document Type: Article

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