Habitat effects on resource tracking ability: Do wintering Blackcaps Sylvia atricapilla track fruit availability?

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 18-25

  Tellería, Jose Luis ^a   Pérez Tris, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; HABITAT TYPE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PASSERINE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; OLEA EUROPAEA; OLEA EUROPAEA VAR. SYLVESTRIS; PISTACIA LENTISCUS; SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA;

EID: 33846195470     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00590.x     Document Type: Article

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