Effects of supplementary feeding on interspecific dominance hierarchies in garden birds

Megan L. Francis; Kate E. Plummer; Bethany A. Lythgoe; Catriona Macallan; Thomas E. Currie; Jonathan D. Blount

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0202152

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Effects of supplementary feeding on interspecific dominance hierarchies in garden birds

Megan L. Francis ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan L. Francis, Kate E. Plummer

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Kate E. Plummer ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Megan L. Francis, Kate E. Plummer

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: j.d.blount@exeter.ac.uk (JDB); kate.plummer@bto.org (KEP)

Affiliations Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom, British Trust for Ornithology, The Nunnery, Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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Bethany A. Lythgoe,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Catriona Macallan,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Thomas E. Currie,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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Jonathan D. Blount

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: j.d.blount@exeter.ac.uk (JDB); kate.plummer@bto.org (KEP)

Affiliation Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

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Effects of supplementary feeding on interspecific dominance hierarchies in garden birds

Megan L. Francis,
Kate E. Plummer,
Bethany A. Lythgoe,
Catriona Macallan,
Thomas E. Currie,
Jonathan D. Blount

Published: September 5, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202152

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Interesting and overdue study Posted by rmoriarty on 20 Sep 2018 at 11:55 GMT

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