Learning the ecological niche

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1606, 2007, Pages 19-23

  Slagsvold, Tore ^a   Wiebe, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Ecological niche; Foraging conservatism; Habitat preferences; Learning; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL TRADITION; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; EGG; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; LEARNING; NICHE; PASSERINE; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORAGING; HABITAT; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PARUS MAJOR;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39049184347     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3663     Document Type: Article

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