Seed preferences in sparrow species of the Monte desert, Argentina: Implications for seed-granivore interactions

We assessed seed preference in four species of sparrows that are common to the central Monte desert of Argentina. Our hypotheses are that (1) sparrows always prefer grass over forb seeds and (2) different species of sparrows show the same preferences when consuming seeds. We presented seeds from eig...

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Publicado: 2006
Materias:
Argentina
Feeding experiments
Granivory
Neotropical Emberizidae
bird
feeding behavior
foraging behavior
granivory
grass
seed
Mendoza
Monte Desert
South America
Aves
Emberizinae
Parthenium hysterophorus
Passeridae
Poaceae
Sporobolus cryptandrus
Zonotrichia capensis
Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00048038_v123_n2_p358_Cueto
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00048038_v123_n2_p358_Cueto
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Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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