Food for thought: Supplementary feeding as a driver of ecological change in avian populations

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 476-484

  Robb, Gillian N ^a   McDonald, Robbie A ^b   Chamberlain, Dan E ^c   Bearhop, Stuart ^a,d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FEEDING; FOOD; HUMAN ACTIVITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AVES; PASSERI; RAPTORES;

EID: 47749120564     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/060152     Document Type: Review

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