Urban flight: Understanding individual and population-level responses of Nearctic-Neotropical migratory birds to urbanization

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 83-91

  Rodewald, Amanda D ^a   Shustack, Daniel P ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian; Behaviour; Demography; Predation; Reproduction; Survival

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BROOD PARASITISM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NEARCTIC REGION; NEOTROPICAL REGION; NESTING; PASSERINE; PREDATION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; RIPARIAN FOREST; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SITE FIDELITY; SURVIVAL; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLYING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; URBANIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; AVES; EMPIDONAX VIRESCENS;

EID: 37349072846     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2007.01313.x     Document Type: Article

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