Changes in the numbers and the distribution of colonial Charadriiformes breeding in the Camargue, southern France

Waterbirds

Volumn 19, Issue SUPPL.1, 1996, Pages 46-58

  Sadoul, Nicolas ^a   Johnson, Alan R ^a   Walmsley, John G ^a   Levêque, Raymond ^b  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b Station Ornithologique Suisse   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Camargue; Colonial Charadriiformes; Colony shifting; France; Landscape changes; Population trends; Regional and local scales; Salinas

Indexed keywords

CHARADRIIFORMES;

EID: 0002869986     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521945     Document Type: Article

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