Individual and spatio-temporal variations in the home range behaviour of a long-lived, territorial species

Oecologia

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 371-385

  Campioni, Letizia ^a   Delgado, María del Mar ^a,b   Lourenço, Rui ^a,c   Bastianelli, Giulia ^d   Fernández, Nestor ^a   Penteriani, Vincenzo ^a,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Behavioural consistency; Bubo bubo; Homogeneous environment; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CORRELATION; HOME RANGE; INCUBATION; MOVEMENT; SPACE USE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; OWL; PHYSIOLOGY; RABBIT; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; RABBITS; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRIGIFORMES;

ANIMALIA; BUBO BUBO; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 84878110654     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2493-7     Document Type: Article

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