Seasonal resource tracking by Amazonian hummingbirds

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 135-142

  Cotton, Peter A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; RAINFOREST; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ARTHROPODA; AVES; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 33846256674     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2006.00619.x     Document Type: Article

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