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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...
Autores principales: | Natusch, Daniel J. D., Lyons, Jessica A., Brown, Gregory, Shine, Richard |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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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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