Impact of dominant predators on territory occupancy and reproduction of subdominant ones within a guild of birds of prey

Open Ornithology Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 23-29

  Solonen, Tapio ^a  

^a Luontotutkimus Solonen Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Diet overlap; Interspecific association; Intraguild predation; Nest site requirements; Spacing of territories

Indexed keywords

ACCIPITER GENTILIS; AVES; RAPTORES; STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 80051716991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18744532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1874453201104010023     Document Type: Article

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