Seasonal diet of the Grey Heron Ardea cinerea on an oceanic island (Tenerife, Canary Islands): Indirect interaction with wild seed plants

Acta Ornithologica

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-87

  Rodríguez, Airam ^a,b   Rodríguez, Beneharo ^c   Rumeu, Beatriz ^a   Nogales, Manuel ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ardea cinerea; Feeding ecology; Grey Heron; Islands; Seasonal diet pattern; Secondary seed disperser

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BIRD; DIETARY SHIFT; FEEDING ECOLOGY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREY PREFERENCE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANARY ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE [(PRV) CANARY ISLANDS]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; TENERIFE;

AESHNIDAE; ARDEA CINEREA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; ODONATA; REPTILIA; SPERMATOPHYTA; SQUAMATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34548295309     PISSN: 00016454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3161/068.042.0102     Document Type: Article

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