Urbanization and the flexibility of the foraging ecology of the alpine chough Pyrrhocorax graculus in winter

Revue d'Ecologie (La Terre et la Vie)

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-352

  Rolando, Antonio ^a   Laiolo, Paola ^a   Carisio, Loredana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; URBANIZATION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; CERVINIA; MALUS X DOMESTICA; PYRRHOCORAX; PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 1842743998     PISSN: 02497395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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