Winners and losers in human-made habitats: Interspecific competition outcomes in two Neotropical vultures

Animal Conservation

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 390-398

  Carrete, Martina ^a   Lambertucci, S A ^b   Speziale, K ^b   Ceballos, O ^a   Travaini, A ^c   Delibes, M ^a   Hiraldo, F ^a   Donazar J A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA AUSTRAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Argentina; Biotic homogenization; Coragyps atratus; Interspecific competition; Social foraging behaviour; Vultur gryphus

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; EXTINCTION; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; SCAVENGER;

ARGENTINA;

CORAGYPS; CORAGYPS ATRATUS; OVIS ARIES; VULTUR GRYPHUS;

EID: 77955170549     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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