Habitat-specific differences in adult survival rates and its links to parental workload and on-nest predation

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 214-224

  Low, Matthew ^a   Arlt, Debora ^a   Eggers, Sönke ^a   Pärt, Tomas ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cavity nesting; Dispersal; Farmland bird; Parental effort; Predation risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DISPERSAL; FOOD PROVISIONING; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT TYPE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MORTALITY; NEST PREDATION; PASSERINE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

AVES; OENANTHE (ANGIOSPERM); OENANTHE (AVES); OENANTHE OENANTHE;

EID: 72449129595     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01595.x     Document Type: Article

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