Territory characteristics and coexistence with heterospecifics in the Dartford warbler Sylvia undata across a habitat gradient

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 62, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1217-1228

  Pons, Pere ^a   Bas, Josep M ^a   Prodon, Roger ^b   Roura Pascual, Núria ^a   Clavero, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

Contender pressure hypothesis; Local guilds; Structural cues hypothesis; Territory overlap; Territory size

Indexed keywords

COEXISTENCE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); HABITAT STRUCTURE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TERRITORY; VEGETATION COVER;

CATALONIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

AVES; HIPPOLAIS POLYGLOTTA; SYLVIA CANTILLANS; SYLVIA MELANOCEPHALA; SYLVIA UNDATA;

EID: 43749084607     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0550-3     Document Type: Article

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