The Geography of Fear: A Latitudinal Gradient in Anti-Predator Escape Distances of Birds across Europe

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Díaz, Mario ^a   Møller, Anders Pape ^b   Flensted Jensen, Einar ^c   Grim, Tomáš ^d   Ibáñez Álamo, Juan Diego ^e   Jokimäki, Jukka ^f,g   Markó, Gábor ^h,i   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^j  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c Department of Zoology and Lab Ornithology ^*  (Denmark)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^g University of Oulu   (Finland)

^h EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

ⁱ Institute of Data Analytics and Information Systems   (Hungary)

^j POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; BREEDING; EFFECT SIZE; EUROPE; FEAR; FINLAND; FLIGHT INITIATION DISTANCE; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; LATITUDE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; RAPTOR; RURAL AREA; RURAL POPULATION; SPAIN; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES HABITAT; TREND STUDY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; RAPTORES;

EID: 84878387992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064634     Document Type: Article

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