Local individual preferences for nest materials in a passerine bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Mennerat, Adèle ^a,b   Perret, Philippe ^a   Lambrechts, Marcel M ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEST PREDATION; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPATIAL SUMMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STEREOTYPY; TEMPORAL SUMMATION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 64249090866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005104     Document Type: Article

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