Non-additivity among multiple cues of predation risk: A behaviorally-driven trophic cascade between owls and songbirds

Oikos

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 82-90

  Schmidt, Kenneth A ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUNAR CYCLE; NEST PREDATION; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RAPTOR; RODENT; SONGBIRD; TROPHIC CASCADE; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; CATHARUS FUSCESCENS; CRICETINAE; PASSERI; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; RODENTIA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 33645126425     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14167.x     Document Type: Article

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