The past and the present in decision-Making: The use of conspecific and heterospecific cues in nest site selection

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3428-3439

  Kivelä, Sami M ^a,f   Seppänen, Janne Tuomas ^b   Ovaskainen, Otso ^c   Doligez, Blandine ^d   Gustafsson, Lars ^e   Mönkkönen, Mikko ^b   Forsman, Jukka T ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^e UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Collared Flycatcher; Competition; Conspecific attraction; Ficedula albicollis; Heterospecific attraction; Prospecting; Social information

Indexed keywords

CONSPECIFIC; DECISION MAKING; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; NEST BOX; NEST SITE; PASSERINE; SITE SELECTION;

FICEDULA ALBICOLLIS; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 84908528960     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2103.1     Document Type: Article

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