Avoiding predators in a fluctuating environment: Responses of the wood warbler to pulsed resources

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 601-608

  Szymkowiak, Jakub ^a   Kuczyński, Lechosław ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

antipredator behavior; masting; nomadic behavior; risk sensitive habitat selection; rodent outbreaks; songbirds

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HABITAT SELECTION; INSECTIVORY; MASTING; NEST PREDATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RODENT; SONGBIRD;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

AVES; CORVIDAE; GARRULUS GLANDARIUS; PHYLLOSCOPUS SIBILATRIX; RODENTIA;

EID: 84938680257     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru237     Document Type: Article

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