Changes in home range of breeding and postbreeding male Pearly-eyed thrashers in the Luquillo mountains of Puerto Rico

Ornitologia Neotropical

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 409-423

  Jose William Beltran S ^a   Wunderle Jr, Joseph M ^b   Arendt, Wayne J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL FORESTRY   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Breeding period; Fruit abundance; Home range; Margarops fuscatus; Pearly eyed Thrasher; Post breeding period; Rain forest; Reproductive stages

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958057806     PISSN: 10754377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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