Credit or debit? Resource input changes population dynamics of city-slicker birds

Oikos

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 622-626

  Shochat, Eyal ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Sutton Avian Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NEST PREDATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION RISK; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 4043064413     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13159.x     Document Type: Review

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