Response of Great Tits Parus major to an irruption of a Pine Processionary Moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa population with a shifted phenology

Ardea

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 191-199

  Pimentel, Carla ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Food dependent breeding success; Great Tit; Numerical response; Pine processionary moth; Second brood; Shifted life cycle

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOOD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; MOTH; NEST BOX; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

AVES; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PARUS MAJOR; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 36448968964     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5253/078.095.0203     Document Type: Article

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