Roost selection flexibility of European starlings aids invasion of urban landscape

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 56-62

  Clergeau, Philippe ^a   Quenot, François ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Behavioural flexibility; Invasive species; Roost site characteristics; Sturnus vulgaris

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; URBAN PLANNING;

BEHAVIORAL FLEXIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; ROOST SITE CHARACTERISTICS; STURNUS VULGARIS;

LANDFORMS;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PASSERINE; ROOST SITE; SITE SELECTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

BRETAGNE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; ILLE-ET-VILAINE; RENNES; WESTERN EUROPE;

CONIFEROPHYTA; STURNIDAE; STURNUS VULGARIS;

EID: 33847081237     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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