Behavioral response of resident Jamaican birds to dry season food supplementation

Biotropica

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 91-99

  Brown, David R ^a,b   Sherry, Thomas W ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Birds; Body condition Coereba flaveola; Dry forest; Food supplementation; Functional response; Jamaica

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BODY CONDITION; DRY SEASON; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; POPULATION SIZE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; GREATER ANTILLES; JAMAICA;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; COEREBA FLAVEOLA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33645006911     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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