Incorporating social information to improve the precision of models of avian habitat use

Condor

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 235-244

  Nocera, Joseph J ^a,b   Forbes, Graham J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Conspecific attraction; Habitat selection; Producer scrounger game; Social information

Indexed keywords

AMMODRAMUS NELSONI; AMMODRAMUS SANDWICHENSIS; ANIMALIA; AVES; DOLICHONYX; DOLICHONYX ORYZIVORUS; PASSERCULUS SANDWICHENSIS;

EID: 77953416855     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2010.090237     Document Type: Article

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