Determinants of abundance and effects of blood-sucking flying insects in the nest of a hole-nesting bird

Oecologia

Volumn 156, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 305-312

  Tomás, Gustavo ^a,b   Merino, Santiago ^a   Martínez De La Puente, Josué ^a   Moreno, Juan ^a   Morales, Judith ^a,c   Lobato, Elisa ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Biting midges; Black flies; Blood parasite vector vertebrate host relationship; Cyanistes caeruleus; Nest mass

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECTOPARASITE; FLY; HATCHING DATE; HEMOPARASITE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; NESTLING; PARASITISM; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY CONSTITUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SONGBIRD; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; DIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 43049128106     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-008-1001-6     Document Type: Article

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