Mass-dependent predation risk as a mechanism for house sparrow declines?

Biology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 43-46

  MacLeod, Ross ^a,b   Barnett, Phil ^a   Clark, Jacquie ^c   Cresswell, Will ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body mass; Farmland birds; Passer domesticus; Starvation risk; Starvation predation risk trade off

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; FOOD SUPPLY; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPARROW; STARVATION; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 33644927527     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0421     Document Type: Article

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