Importance of landfills to urban-nesting herring and ring-billed gulls

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 43, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 11-19

  Belant, Jerrold L ^a   Ickes, Sheri K ^a   Seamans, Thomas W ^a  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Herring gull; L. delawarensis; Larus argentatus; Ring billed gull; Urban planning; Waste disposal facilities

Indexed keywords

DIET; LANDFILL; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEABIRD; URBAN AREA;

OHIO; UNITED STATES;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; LARUS ARGENTATUS; LARUS DELAWARENSIS;

EID: 0032576609     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-2046(98)00100-5     Document Type: Article

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