Distribution of wintering common eiders over mussel beds: Does the ideal free distribution apply?

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 435-442

  Guillemette, Magella ^a,b   Himmelman, John H ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Natl Environ Research Institute   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON EIDER; WINTERING;

CANADA, GULF OF ST LAWRENCE;

BIVALVIA; MYTILUS EDULIS; SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA;

EID: 0030304541     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3546337     Document Type: Article

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