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Is multiple nest building an adequate strategy to cope with inter-species nest usurpation?

BACKGROUND: Black sparrowhawks (Accipiter melanoleucus) recently colonised the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, where the species faces competition for their nest sites from Egyptian geese (Alopochen aegyptiaca) which frequently usurp black sparrowhawk nests. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that...

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Autores principales: Sumasgutner, Petra, Millán, Juan, Curtis, Odette, Koelsag, Ann, Amar, Arjun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4858914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27150363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0671-7

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