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Winter flocking behaviour of speckled warblers and the Allee effect

Gardner, Janet

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The aggregation of individuals into foraging flocks is one behavioural trait that, if disrupted, can cause the Allee effect, which is a slowing in population growth at low density or small population size, and this can greatly increase the risk of extinction. Here, I describe intraspecific flocking behaviour of a colour-banded population of speckled warblers, Chthonicola sagittata, a species that has declined across a large part of its range in the fragmented temperate woodlands of Australia. I...[Show more]

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Date published: 2004
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/75749
Source: Biological Conservation
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2003.08.018

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