Behavioural flexibility predicts species richness in birds, but not extinction risk

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 445-452

  Nicolakakis, Nektaria ^a   Sol, Daniel ^a   Lefebvre, Louis ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; EXTINCTION RISK; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; PASSERIDA;

EID: 0037667871     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2085     Document Type: Article

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