Beyond the information centre hypothesis: Communal roosting for information on food, predators, travel companions and mates?

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 277-285

  Bijleveld, Allert I ^a   Egas, Martijn ^b   van Gils, Jan A ^c   Piersma, Theunis ^c  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; FOOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INFORMATION; PASSERINE; PREDATOR; ROOSTING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THERMOREGULATION; WADER;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CORVIDA;

EID: 77952931591     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17892.x     Document Type: Article

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