Environmental and habitat correlates of pasture use by nonbreeding shorebirds

Condor

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 337-344

  Colwell, Mark A ^a   Dodd, Sarah L ^a,b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

bird habitat relationships; Charadrii; logistic regression; pastures; shorebirds; spatial distribution; vegetation height

Indexed keywords

AVES; BOS TAURUS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CHARADRII; CHARADRIUS VOCIFERUS; GALLINAGO GALLINAGO; LIMOSA FEDOA; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA;

EID: 0030991339     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369939     Document Type: Article

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