Experimental evidence for an ideal free distribution in a breeding population of a territorial songbird

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 861-869

  Haché, Samuel ^a   Villard, Marc André ^b   Bayne, Erin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptive habitat selection; Density dependence; Habitat alteration; Habitat quality; Litter invertebrates; Neotropical migratory songbirds; Partial harvesting; Population dynamics; Population regulation; Private information; Seiurus aurocapilla; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HARVESTING; IDEAL FREE DISTRIBUTION; LITTER; NEST; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION REGULATION; SELECTION; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL; TERRITORIALITY; TERRITORY;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; PASSERI; SEIURUS; SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS;

EID: 84876760943     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1025.1     Document Type: Article

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