Crowding in the city: Losing and winning competitors of an invasive bird

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Hernández Brito, Dailos ^a   Carrete, Martina ^a,b   Popa Lisseanu, Ana G ^c   Ibáñez, Carlos ^a   Tella, José L ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CROWDING (AREA); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PSITTACULA; PSITTACULA KRAMERI; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES INVASION; ANIMAL; BREEDING; CITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PARAKEET; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREE;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CITIES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; CROWDING; INTRODUCED SPECIES; LINEAR MODELS; PARAKEETS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

EID: 84903132568     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100593     Document Type: Article

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