Habitat-specific foraging of prothonotary warblers: Deducing habitat quality

Condor

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-49

  Lyons, James E ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack rate; Food availability; Foraging behavior; Habitat quality; Prothonotary Warbler; Protonotaria citrea

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; CUPRESSUS; HUMULUS; HUMULUS LUPULUS; PROTONOTARIA; PROTONOTARIA CITREA;

EID: 13844255275     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/7462     Document Type: Article

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