Predators control post-fledging mortality in tawny owls, Strix aluco

Oikos

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 461-472

  Sunde, Peter ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; MORTALITY; PREDATOR; RAPTOR;

AVES; CANIDAE; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 24744438225     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.14069.x     Document Type: Article

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