Relationships between winter temperature and breeding bird abundance on community level: Importance of interspecific differences in diet

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 313-322

  Reif, Jiří ^a   Telenský, Tomáš ^a   Šťastný, Karel ^b   Bejček, Vladimír ^b   Klvaňa, Petr ^c  

^a Charles University   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bird assemblage; Body size; Climate; Food type; Population regulation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIRD; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MORTALITY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WINTER;

CZECH REPUBLIC;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 78650182785     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v59.i4.a7.2010     Document Type: Article

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