Anti-predator signals in the chaffinch Fringilla coelebs in response to habitat structure and different predator types

Ethology

Volumn 114, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1033-1043

  Jones, Katherine A ^a,b   Whittingham, Mark J ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSPECIFIC; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLUMBA; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS;

EID: 53749087421     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2008.01558.x     Document Type: Article

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