Nestling diets of coexisting salt marsh sparrows: Opportunism in a food-rich environment

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 765-775

  Post, William ^a   Greenlaw, Jon S ^b,c  

^a Charleston Museum   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COEXISTENCE; DIETARY OVERLAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PROVISIONING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; RESOURCE USE; SALTMARSH; SONGBIRD; TROPHIC CONDITIONS;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AMMODRAMUS CAUDACUTUS; AMMODRAMUS MARITIMUS; AMPHIPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; ODONTOMYIA; PASSERIDAE; STRATIOMYIDAE;

EID: 33751112009     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02786527     Document Type: Article

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