Experimental evidence and 43 years of monitoring data show that food limits reproduction in a food-caching passerine

Ecology

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3005-3015

  Derbyshire, Rachael ^a   Strickland, Dan ^b   Norris, D Ryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada; Caching; Food limitation; Food supplementation; Gray Jay; Long term data; Perisoreus canadensis; Population decline; Public feeding; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

BIOMONITORING; BODY CONDITION; BREEDING POPULATION; BROOD SIZE; CACHING; FOOD LIMITATION; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; NESTLING; PASSERINE; POPULATION DECLINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ALGONQUIN PROVINCIAL PARK; CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; PASSERIFORMES; PERISOREUS; PERISOREUS CANADENSIS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE FITNESS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS;

EID: 85047290630     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0191.1     Document Type: Article

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