Constraints on home range behaviour affect nutritional condition in urban house sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-50

  Vangestel, Carl ^a   Braeckman, Bart P ^a   Matheve, Hans ^a   Lens, Luc ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Body condition; Habitat fragmentation; Landscape connectivity; Ptilochronology; Radio telemetry; Urban ecology

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; CONNECTIVITY; CONSPECIFIC; FEATHER; GRAIN SIZE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOME RANGE; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; RADIOTELEMETRY; URBAN ECOSYSTEM;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 77955967515     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01493.x     Document Type: Article

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