Bird Abundance and Seasonality in a Costa Rican Lowland Forest Canopy
Ornithological ApplicationsPublished 1 November 1988
Bette A. Loiselle
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I censused forest canopy birds from two emergent trees in lowland wet forest in Costa Rica from April 1985 to May 1986 to find that the abundance of small frugivores and small insectivores was seasonally variable andent of seasonal variation in fruit crop sizes of Dipteryx panamensis may have contributed to the annual variation observed in psittacids.
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Journal Article Bird Abundance and Seasonality in a Costa Rican Lowland Forest Canopy Get access Bette A. Loiselle Bette A. Loiselle Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Condor, Volume 90, Issue 4, 1 November 1988, Pages 761–772, https://doi.org/10.2307/1368833 Published: 01 November 1988 Article history Received: 16 November 1987 Accepted: 06 May 1988 Published: 01 November 1988
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