Nest predation in a neotropical forest occurs during daytime

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 166-170

  Libsch, Michael M ^a   Batista, Chelina ^b   Buehler, Deborah ^b   Ochoa, Isis ^b   Brawn, Jeffrey ^a   Ricklefs, Robert E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Nest activity; Nest attentiveness; Nest predation; Parental investment; Skutch hypothesis; Understory rainforest birds

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 66149185580     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.110.1.166     Document Type: Article

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