Physical habitat quality and interspecific competition interact to influence territory settlement and reproductive success in a cavity nesting bird
Determining how to best measure habitat quality is essential for many conservation plans and basic ecological questions. Territory quality is thought to be a product of physical habitat characteristics (i.e. habitat quality) and the density of competitors yet these relationships are rarely demonstra...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2014.00071/full |