The influence of parental behavior on vulnerability to nest predation in tropical thrushes of an Andean cloud forest

Journal of Avian Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 658-661

  Halupka, Konrad ^a   Greeney, Harold F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b Center for Creative Studies   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD FOREST; CLUTCH SIZE; GUILD; NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; PASSERINE; PATERNITY; PREDATION RISK; SURVIVAL; SYMPATRY; VULNERABILITY;

ANDES;

AVES; MYADESTES RALLOIDES; TURDIDAE; TURDUS;

EID: 72249107271     PISSN: 09088857     EISSN: 1600048X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-048X.2009.04772.x     Document Type: Article

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