Territorial resource valuation deviates from habitat quality in an ecologically trapped, long-distance migratory bird

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 777-783

  Hollander, Franck A ^a   Titeux, Nicolas ^b   van Dyck, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Aggressiveness; Birds; Ecological trap; Farmland; Fight intensity; Phenology; Spruce plantations

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; AVIFAUNA; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BREEDING SITE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PASSERINE; PHENOLOGY; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; TERRITORIALITY; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

ANIMALIA; AVES; LANIIDAE; LANIUS COLLURIO; PICEA;

EID: 84859730644     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-012-1325-4     Document Type: Article

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