Parasitism rate by the Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus increases with high density of host's breeding pairs

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 193-196

  Alvarez, Fernando ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ANDALUCIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SEVILLA [ANDALUCIA]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

CERCOTRICHAS; CERCOTRICHAS GALACTOTES; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 0942280444     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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