Home range size of willow tits: A response to winter habitat loss

Oecologia

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 635-642

  Siffczyk, Claudia ^a   Brotons, Lluís ^a,b   Kangas, Katja ^a   Orell, Markku ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Bird flocks; Forestry; Habitat fragmentation; Habitat preference; Landscape structure

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; FORESTRY; GROUP SIZE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; PASSERINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORESTRY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; TREE;

ANIMALS; COLD; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FINLAND; FORESTRY; MALE; MOVEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; TREES;

FINLAND;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS; PARUS MONTANUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; SALIX;

EID: 0141680884     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-003-1256-x     Document Type: Article

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