Diet and prey availability of terrestrial insectivorous birds prone to extinction in Amazonian forest fragments

Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1371-1381

  Mestre, Luiz Augusto Macedo ^a,b,c   Cohn Haft, Mario ^d   Dias, Manoel Martins ^b  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO CARLOS   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazonian forests; Bird diet; Forest fragmentation; Formicarius analis; Formicarius colma; Insectivores; Myrmeciza ferruginea; Sclerurus rufigularis

Indexed keywords

AVES; FORMICARIUS ANALIS; FORMICARIUS COLMA; MYRMECIZA FERRUGINEA; SCLERURUS RUFIGULARIS;

EID: 79251470755     PISSN: 15168913     EISSN: 15168913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1516-89132010000600014     Document Type: Article

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