Habitat quality as a predictor of spatial variation in blue tit reproductive performance: A multi-plot analysis in a heterogeneous landscape

Oecologia

Volumn 141, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 555-561

  Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a   Caro, Samuel ^a,b   Charmantier, Anne ^a   Gross, Nicolas ^a   Galan, Marie Jo ^a   Perret, Philippe ^a   Cartan Son, Mireille ^a   Dias, Paula C ^a   Blondel, Jacques ^a   Thomas, Donald W ^c  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Habitat quality; Parus caeruleus; Predation; Quercus; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; MORPHOMETRICS; OAK; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; TREE;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; ENVIRONMENT; FRANCE; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; QUERCUS; REPRODUCTION; TREES;

AVES; GALLUS GALLUS; ILEX; PARUS; PARUS CAERULEUS; PARUS CAERULEUS OGLIASTRAE; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ILEX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 19944405072     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1681-5     Document Type: Article

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