Does urbanization select for weak competitors in house sparrows?

Oikos

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 437-444

  Bókony, Veronika ^a   Kulcsár, Anna ^b   Liker, András ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PANNONIA   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY MASS; CAPTIVITY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; FOOD SUPPLY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; PASSERINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSER DOMESTICUS; PASSERIDAE;

EID: 80052783574     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17848.x     Document Type: Article

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