Community Ecology of Neotropical Kingfishers

Community Ecology of Neotropical Kingfishers
ISBN-10
0520096738
ISBN-13
9780520096738
Category
Nature
Pages
132
Language
English
Published
1991-01-01
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Author
James Vanderbeek Remsen

Description

To determine the mechanisms for species-spacing in a group of closely related bird species--namely, five species of Neotropical Kingfishers--the author studied their feeding behavior and diet at three sites, two in Bolivia and one in Colombia. He found that changes in number of coexisting species were correlated with changes in abundance and size distribution of their prey, surface-dwelling fishes.

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