The role of nest-site selection and cereal production in differential nest predation in Common Quail Coturnix coturnix and hybrid quail C. coturnix × C. japonica

Ibis

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 784-795

  Capdevila, Júlia ^a   Puigcerver, Manel ^a   López, Sònia ^a   Pérez Masdeu, Elisabet ^a   García Galea, Eduardo ^a   Rodríguez Teijeiro, José Domingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

anthropogenic hybridization; edge effect; nest cover; nest predation; restocking

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BARLEY; BIRD; BREEDING SEASON; CONSERVATION STATUS; EDGE EFFECT; FIELD MARGIN; HYBRIDIZATION; INCUBATION; NEST PREDATION; NEST SITE; SITE SELECTION;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

AVES; COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; HORDEUM; JAPONICA; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 84979010926     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: 1474919X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12390     Document Type: Article

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