Spatial heterogeneity in resource distribution promotes facultative sociality in two trans-saharan migratory birds

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Cortés Avizanda, Ainara ^a   Almaraz, Pablo ^b   Carrete, Martina ^a,c   Sánchez Zapata, José A ^b   Delgado, Antonio ^d   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a   Donázar, José A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^d CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; CARBON; NITROGEN;

AFRICA; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; SCAVENGER (ORGANISM); SUMMER; WINTER; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; CATTLE; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AVES; MILVUS; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CATTLE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79959435914     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0021016     Document Type: Article

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