Personality predicts spatial responses to food manipulations in free-ranging great tits (Parus major)

Biology Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 187-190

  Van Overveld, Thijs ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Parus major; Personality; Spatial behaviour

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD SUPPLY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; JUVENILE; RANGE SIZE; SONGBIRD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 77951465929     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0764     Document Type: Article

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