Exotic shrubs as ephemeral ecological traps for nesting birds

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 33-39

  Rodewald, Amanda D ^a   Shustack, Daniel P ^a   Hitchcock, Lauren E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birds; Ecological trap; Exotic; Nest; Predation; Productivity

Indexed keywords

NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; NESTING; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; SHRUB; SUBSTRATE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CARDINALIS; CARDINALIS CARDINALIS; LONICERA; LONICERA MAACKII; ROSA MULTIFLORA;

EID: 72149089846     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-009-9426-3     Document Type: Article

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