Novelty responses in a bird assemblage inhabiting an urban area

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 616-624

  Echeverría, Alejandra Isabel ^a   Vassallo, Aldo Iván ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INVASIBILITY; PASSERINE; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORTADERIA SELLOANA; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; ZENAIDA AURICULATA;

EID: 43749097196     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01512.x     Document Type: Article

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