Disentangling habitat and social drivers of nesting patterns in songbirds

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 519-531

  Melles, S J ^a,b   Badzinski, D ^c   Fortin, M J ^a   Csillag, F ^a   Lindsay, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c Bird Studies Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conspecific attraction; Pair correlation function; Point pattern analysis; Spatial aggregation; Wilsonia citrina

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BREEDING POPULATION; CLASSIFICATION; CONSPECIFIC; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; NEST SITE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PATCHINESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; WILSONIA (AVES); WILSONIA CITRINA;

EID: 61849083612     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-009-9329-9     Document Type: Article

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