Interacting effects of aromatic plants and female age on nest-dwelling ectoparasites and blood-sucking flies in avian nests

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 246-253

  Tomas G ^a   Merino, S ^a   Martinez de la Puente J ^a,b   Moreno, J ^a   Morales, J ^a   Lobato, E ^a,c   Rivero de Aguilar, J ^a   del Cerro, S ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Antiparasite defence; Biting flies; Ceratopogonidae; Culicoides; Greenery; Simuliidae

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; AVIFAUNA; ECTOPARASITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; FLY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NESTLING; PARASITE INTENSITY; PASSERINE; PLANT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; CALLIPHORIDAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; ECTOPARASITE; FEMALE; FLEA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MITE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; REPRODUCTION; SIMULIIDAE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIPTERA; FEMALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; PLANTS;

ACARI; AVES; CALLIPHORIDAE; CERATOPOGONIDAE; CYANISTES CAERULEUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 84860519997     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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