Linking optimal foraging behavior to bird community structure in an urban-desert landscape: Field experiments with artificial food patches

American Naturalist

Volumn 164, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 232-243

  Shochat, Eyal ^a,b   Lerman, Susannah B ^a,c   Katti, Madhusudan ^a,d   Lewis, David B ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^c ANTIOCH UNIVERSITY NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bird communities; Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research project; Coexistence; Community structure; Giving up density; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AVIFAUNA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; CITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DESERT CLIMATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCH; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SPARROW; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CITIES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DESERT CLIMATE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FINCHES; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPARROWS; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARPODACUS MEXICANUS; COLUMBIFORMES; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE; PHOENIX;

EID: 4143153859     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/422222     Document Type: Article

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