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Official journal of the Netherlands Ornithologists' Union

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Vila C. & Rodriguez-Teijeiro J.D. (1992) Resource partitioning in forest passerines: The temporal dimension. ARDEA 80 (3): 383-388
The distribution of foraging activity throughout the day is usually not considered as an important factor in the study of resource partitioning among the members of a passerine community. However, in this study we observe that not all the species in a community have the same activity pattern. The patterns found in three different periods of the year for four passerine members of the same community (Coal Tit, Crested Tit, Goldcrest and Treecreeper) are unimodal with maxima appearing during the morning or at midday, but shifting to the afternoon in early spring for the Coat Tit and the Crested Tit. Possible causes for these differences among species and within the year are discussed as well as possible consequences for ecological studies.


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