Ecomorphology of the wheatears (genus Oenanthe)

Ibis

Volumn 149, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 792-805

  Kaboli, Mohammad ^a,b   Aliabadian, Mansour ^c,d   Guillaumet, Alban ^e   Roselaar, Cees S ^c   Prodon, Roger ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^e UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOMORPHOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SYMPATRY;

OENANTHE (AVES); OENANTHE ALBONIGER; OENANTHE BOTTAE; OENANTHE CYPRIACA; OENANTHE DESERTI; OENANTHE HEUGLINI; OENANTHE HISPANICA; OENANTHE ISABELLINA; OENANTHE LEUCOPYGA; OENANTHE LEUCURA; OENANTHE MONACHA; OENANTHE MONTICOLA; OENANTHE OENANTHE; OENANTHE PILEATA; OENANTHE PLESCHANKA;

EID: 35048877093     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00714.x     Document Type: Article

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