How do frugivores track resources? Insights from spatial analyses of bird foraging in a tropical forest

Oecologia

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 235-245

  Saracco, James F ^a,b   Collazo, Jaime A ^a   Groom, Martha J ^a,c,d  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Washington ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitation; Frugivory; Puerto Rico; Spatial correlograms; Tanagers

Indexed keywords

FACILITATION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRD; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MOVEMENT; PLANTS, EDIBLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRDS; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; PUERTO RICO;

AVES; EMBERIZINAE; NESOSPINGUS SPECULIFERUS; SPINDALIS;

EID: 2342576924     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-004-1493-7     Document Type: Article

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