Dry fruits and the abundance of the Blue-and-Yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) at a cerrado remnant in central Brazil

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 491-500

  Ragusa Netto, José ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Abundance; Canopy phenology; Cerrado; Feeding ecology; Food resources; Forest fragment; Parrots; Psittacidae

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846410317     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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