Bird community response to fruit energy

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 824-835

  Peters, Valerie E ^a   Mordecai, Rua ^b   Ronald Carroll, C ^a   Cooper, Robert J ^a   Greenberg, Russell ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b Southeast Partners in Flight   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecology; Community stability; Fruit energy; Fruit frugivore; Multi season occupancy model; Shade grown coffee

Indexed keywords

AGROECOLOGY; BIRD; COFFEE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FRUGIVORY; FRUIT; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OMNIVORY; PERSISTENCE; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CALORIC INTAKE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MIGRATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FRUIT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 77957673772     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01699.x     Document Type: Article

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