Corvids congregate to breeding colonies of a burrow-nesting seabird

Austral Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 291-301

  Ekanayake, Kasun B ^a   Weston, Michael A ^a   Dann, Peter ^b   Sutherland, Duncan R ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Phillip Island Nature Park   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregate; Egg predation; Little penguin; Little raven; Management; Phillip Island

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGGREGATE; BREEDING POPULATION; BURROW; EGG PREDATION; NESTING; PASSERINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SEABIRD; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VIABILITY;

AUSTRALIA; PHILLIP ISLAND; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MELLORI; EUDYPTULA MINOR; LARIDAE; LARUS NOVAEHOLLANDIAE; PROCELLARIIDAE; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 84942058849     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aec.12311     Document Type: Article

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