The importance of landscape structure for nest defence in the Eurasian Treecreeper Certhia familiaris

Ornis Fennica

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 145-154

  Jäntti, Ari ^a   Hakkarainen, Harri ^b   Kuitunen, Markku ^a   Suhonen, Jukka ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GIS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NEST GUARDING; NESTING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PATCH SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNALING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FINLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

AVES; CERTHIA FAMILIARIS; DENDROCOPOS MAJOR;

EID: 38549100834     PISSN: 00305685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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