Communally Nesting Migratory Birds Create Ecological Hot-Spots in Tropical Australia

Large numbers of metallic starlings (Aplonis metallica) migrate annually from New Guinea to the rainforests of tropical Australia, where they nest communally in single emergent trees (up to 1,000 birds). These aggregations create dense and species-rich faunal “hot-spots”, attracting a diverse assemb...

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Autores principales: Natusch, Daniel J. D., Lyons, Jessica A., Brown, Gregory, Shine, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27706197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162651

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5051721/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27706197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162651

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