Diet overlap and prey size of two owls in the forest-steppe ecotone of southern Argentina

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 539-546

  Trejo, Ana ^a   Kun, Marcelo ^a   Sahores, Mercedes ^a   Seijas, Susana ^a  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bubo magellanicus; Diet overlap; Ecotone; Northwestern Patagonia; Prey size; Tyto alba

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745868292     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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