Why is brood reduction in Florida scrub-jays higher in suburban than in wildland habitats?

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1427-1435

  Shawkey, Matthew D ^a,b,c   Bowman, Reed ^a,b   Woolfenden, Glen E ^a,b  

^a ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FOOD ADDITIVES; PROBABILITY;

BROOD REDUCTION; FOOD DELIVERY; HABITATS; SUBURBAN SCRUB;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ARTHROPOD; BROOD SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NESTLING; PASSERINE; POPULATION SIZE; STARVATION; SUBURBAN AREA;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

APHELOCOMA; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS; APHELOCOMA COERULESCENS COERULESCENS; ARTHROPODA; CORVIDAE;

EID: 11144240285     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-123     Document Type: Article

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