Breeding season food limitation drives population decline of the Little Owl Athene noctua in Denmark

Ibis

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 803-814

  Thorup, Kasper ^a   Sunde, Peter ^b   Jacobsen, Lars B ^a   Rahbek, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Conservation; Experiment; Food supplementation; Habitat association; Invertebrates; Reproductive output; Survival

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; CLUTCH SIZE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; POPULATION DECLINE; SURVIVAL;

DENMARK;

ATHENE NOCTUA; AVES; INVERTEBRATA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 77956597973     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2010.01046.x     Document Type: Article

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