Food limits annual fecundity of a migratory songbird: An experimental study

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 675-681

  Nagy, Laura R ^a,b   Holmes, Richard T ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black throated Blue Warbler; Dendroica caerulescens; Double brooding; Food limitation; Food supplementation; Foraging behavior; Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest; Multiple brooding; Neotropical migrant bird; Population limitation

Indexed keywords

FECUNDITY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE BROODING; POPULATION SIZE; SONGBIRD;

AVES; DENDROICA CAERULESCENS; PASSERI;

EID: 15244338844     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/04-0155     Document Type: Article

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