Social information in nest colonisation and occupancy in a long-lived, solitary breeding bird

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 617-627

  Václav, Radovan ^a   Valera, Francisco ^b   Martínez, Teresa ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coracias garrulus; Inadvertent social information; Nest site selection; Performance based conspecific attraction; Social attraction

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; COLONIZATION; DISPERSAL; NEST BOX; NEST SITE; PATCH USE; PHILOPATRY; SITE SELECTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

AVES; CORACIAS GARRULUS;

EID: 79951550569     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1848-1     Document Type: Article

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