Predation on artificial, solitary and aggregated wader nests on farmland

Oecologia

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 343-346

  Berg, Åke ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Artificial nests; Curlew nests; Lapwing nests; Nest aggregation; Nest predation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029760591     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328450     Document Type: Article

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