Avian foraging studies: An overlooked source of distribution data for macroecological and conservation studies

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 630-632

  Grim, Tomas ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Data sources; Diversity; Foraging; Macroecology; Methods; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIRD; CONSERVATION; DATA SET; FOOD CONSUMPTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVERTEBRATE; MACROECOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 33646340094     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1366-9516.2006.00251.x     Document Type: Article

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