Water depth selection, daily feeding routines and diets of waterbirds in coastal lagoons in Ghana

Ibis

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-103

  Ntiamoa Baidu, Yaa ^a,b   Piersma, Theunis ^c,d   Wiersma, Popko ^c,d   Poot, Martin ^c,e   Battley, Phil ^f   Gordon, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^b Ghana Wildlife Society   (Ghana)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e SOVON DUTCH CENTRE FOR FIELD ORNITHOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^f MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; COASTAL LAGOON; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOUR; FORAGING; WATER DEPTH; WATERBIRD;

GHANA;

EID: 0031965223     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1998.tb04545.x     Document Type: Article

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