Nest placement and mortality: Is nest predation a random event in space and time?

Condor

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 916-920

  Schmidt, Kenneth A ^a   Whelan, Christopher J ^b  

^a CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Acadian Flycatcher; Behavioral games; Empidonax virescens; Nest mortality; Nest tree selection

Indexed keywords

EMPIDONAX VIRESCENS; IMPLETA;

EID: 0345201634     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370089     Document Type: Review

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