Interspecific competition limits larders of pygmy owls Glaucidium passerinum

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 630-634

  Suhonen, Jukka ^a,b   Halonen, Matti ^a   Mappes, Tapio ^a   Korpimäki, Erkki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; NEST BOX; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; GLAUCIDIUM (AVES); GLAUCIDIUM PASSERINUM; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 34548531451     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0908-8857.2007.03960.x     Document Type: Article

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