Social and individual features affecting natal dispersal in the colonial Lesser Kestrel

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3044-3054

  Serrano, David ^a   Tella, José L ^a   Donázar, José A ^a   Pomarol, Manel ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b Servei Proteccio Gestio de la Fauna   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arrival timing; Conspecific attraction; Facultative coloniality; Falco naumanni; Generalized linear mixed models; Intraspecific competition; Lesser Kestrel; Natal dispersal; Sex biased dispersal; Spain

Indexed keywords

COLONIAL BREEDING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NATAL DISPERSAL; RAPTOR; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

FALCO; FALCO NAUMANNI; RAPTORES;

EID: 1342266261     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0231     Document Type: Article

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