What seeds tell us about birds: A multi-year analysis of acorn woodpecker foraging movements

Movement Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Thompson, Pamela G ^a   Smouse, Peter E ^b   Scofield, Douglas G ^a,c   Sork, Victoria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acorn woodpeckers; Alpha; Beta and Gamma diversity; Foraging movement; Optimal foraging theory; Seed movement; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939445671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2051-3933-2-12     Document Type: Article

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