The role of the Eurasian sparrowhawk (accipiter nisus) in the decline of the house sparrow (passer domesticus) in Britain

Auk

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 411-420

  Bell, Christopher P ^c   Baker, Sam W ^a   Parkes, Nigel G ^a   Brooke, M De L ^a   Chamberlain, Dan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Accipiter nisus; Blitzkrieg hypothesis; Eurasian sparrowhawk; House sparrow; Passer domesticus; Population limitation; Predatorprey interaction; Songbird declines; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HABITAT USE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; RECOLONIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIPITER NISUS; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERI;

EID: 77951925449     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/auk.2009.09108     Document Type: Article

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