Can variation in risk of nest predation explain altitudinal migration in tropical birds?

2008/01/09 by W. Alice Boyle · 95 citations
Environmental Science · #Avian ecology and behavior #Biology #Ecology #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Nest (protein structural motif) #Predation #Species Distribution and Climate Change #Tropical forest #Tropics #Variation (astronomy)

paper · doi:10.1007/s00442-007-0897-6

published in Oecologia 155(2), 397-403 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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