Life in the small-bodied cavity-nester guild: Demography of sympatric mountain and black-capped chickadees within nest web communities under changing habitat conditions

Ecology and Behavior of Chickadees and Titmice: An Integrated Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Martin, Kathy ^a   Norris, Andrea R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cavity nesting; Chickadees; Excavations; Habitat changes; Nest webs; Parids; Population growth; Sympatric species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752140     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198569992.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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