Predation and infanticide influence ideal free choice by a parrot occupying heterogeneous tropical habitats

Oecologia

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 385-393

  Bonebrake, Timothy C ^a,b   Beissinger, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Habitat selection; Ideal free distribution; Infanticide; Parrot

Indexed keywords

WATER;

DEMOGRAPHY; FITNESS; FLEDGING; HABITAT QUALITY; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; INFANTICIDE; NEIGHBORHOOD; NEST SITE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TROPICAL REGION; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NESTING; OOCYTE; PARROT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; REPRODUCTION; TROPIC CLIMATE; VENEZUELA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OVUM; PARROTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VENEZUELA; WATER;

VENEZUELA;

FORPUS PASSERINUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 77952321742     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1566-8     Document Type: Article

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