Home range size is determined by habitat composition but feeding rate by food availability in male Tengmalm's owls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1115-1123

  Santangeli, Andrea ^a   Hakkarainen, Harri ^a   Laaksonen, Toni ^b   Korpimäki, Erkki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aegolius funereus; Haematocrit; Parental care; Provisioning rate; Reproductive cost; Telemetry; Tengmalm's owl

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FLEDGING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; FOOD SUPPLY; FOREST COVER; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOME RANGE; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MALE BEHAVIOR; RADIOTELEMETRY; RAPTOR; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

AEGOLIUS FUNEREUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; PICEA; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84858752266     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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