Change in flight initiation distance between urban and rural habitats following a cold winter

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1211-1217

  Møller, Anders Pape ^a   Grim, Tomas ^b   Ibáñez Álamo, Juan Diego ^c   Markó, Gábor ^d,e   Tryjanowski, Piotr ^f  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e Operációkutatás és Aktuáriustudományok Tanszék docense   (Hungary)

^f POZNA UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

antipredator behavior; birds; flight initiation distance; urbanization.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BIRD; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FLIGHT BEHAVIOR; HABITAT TYPE; LATITUDE; POPULATION DENSITY; RURAL AREA; SEASONALITY; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; WINTER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84882311056     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/art054     Document Type: Article

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