Contrasting natural experiments confirm competition between House Finches and House Sparrows

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 864-870

  Cooper, Caren B ^a   Hochachka, Wesley M ^a   Dhondt, André A ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Carpodacus mexicanus; Citizen science; Exotic species; House Finch; House Sparrow; Interspecific competition; Invasive species; Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis; Passer domesticus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; APPARENT COMPETITION; DISEASE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE EXPANSION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIRD DISEASE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPARROW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; CONJUNCTIVITIS, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPARROWS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; MYCOPLASMA GALLISEPTICUM; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 34247344128     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-0855     Document Type: Article

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