Numerical and functional responses of breeding passerine species to mass occurrence of geometrid caterpillars in a subalpine birch forest: A 30-year study

Ibis

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 77-91

  Hogstad, Olav ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CYCLICITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA; WORLD;

ACANTHIS FLAMMEA; AVES; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; CARDUELIS; CARDUELIS FLAMMEA; EMBERIZA; EMBERIZA SCHOENICLUS; EPIRRITA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; LUSCINIA; LUSCINIA SVECICA; MONTIFRINGILLA; OPEROPHTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; PASSERIFORMES; PHACELIA CONGESTA; PHRAGMITES; PHYLLOSCOPUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS TROCHILUS; SALIX; TROCHILUS;

EID: 13444269218     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.2004.00338     Document Type: Article

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