Heterospecific facilitation of forest-boundary crossing by mobbing understory birds in north-central Florida

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 738-751

  Sieving, Kathryn E ^a   Contreras, Thomas A ^a   Maute, Kimberly L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PERCEPTION; PREDATION RISK; UNDERSTORY;

FLORIDA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ASIO; AVES; BAEOLOPHUS; BAEOLOPHUS BICOLOR; MEGASCOPS ASIO; OTUS ASIO; PARIDAE; PARUS BICOLOR; QUERCUS; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 3242703390     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090311     Document Type: Article

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