Effects of food provisioning and habitat management on spatial behaviour of Little Owls during the breeding season
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L.B. Jacobsen, M. Chrenková, K. Thorup, Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. * Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected] M. Chrenková, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Branišovská 31, 370 05 eské Bud jovice, Czech Republic P. Sunde, Department of Bioscience – Wildlife Ecology, Aarhus University; Grenåvej 14, 8410 Rønde, Denmark M. Šálek, Institute of Vertebrate Biology v.v.i, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kv tná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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