Avoiding perceived past resource use of potential competitors affects niche dynamics in a bird community

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Forsman, Jukka T ^a,f   Kivelä, Sami M ^a,e   Jaakkonen, Tuomo ^a   Seppänen, Janne Tuomas ^b   Gustafsson, Lars ^c   Doligez, Blandine ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cavity nesting birds; Ficedula; Intra and interspecific competition; Nest site selection; Niche division; Parus; Resource partitioning; Social information use; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NEST BOX; NEST SITE; NICHE; PASSERINE; RESOURCE USE; SITE SELECTION;

AVES; FICEDULA; PARUS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; SEASON; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PASSERIFORMES; SEASONS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84908350328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0175-2     Document Type: Article

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