Do birds see the forest for the trees? Scale-dependent effects of tree diversity on avian predation of artificial larvae

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Oecologia

• Publication date

  2016-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1007/s00442-015-3391-6PMID 26201260
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