Blue tits use fledgling quantity and quality as public information in breeding site choice

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2373-2382

  Parejo, Deseada ^a   White, Joel ^b   Clobert, Jean ^b   Dreiss, Amelie ^c   Danchin, Etienne ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Birds; Blue Tit; Breeding habitat selection; Components of public information; Cyanistes caeruleus; Dispersal; Emigration; Habitat copying; Immigration; Performance based cues; Resident birds

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; CONSPECIFIC; EMIGRATION; FLEDGING; IMMIGRATION; PASSERINE; SITE SELECTION;

AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 38449108196     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-2000.1     Document Type: Article

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