Exploitation of a new staging area in the Dutch Wadden Sea by Greylag Geese Anser anser: The importance of food-plant dynamics

Ardea

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-13

  Bakker, Liesbeth ^a,c   Van Der Wal, René ^a,d   Esselink, Peter ^a,b   Siepel, Almira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Koeman en Bijkerk bv   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anser anser; Colonisation; Food plant quality; Habitat use; Herbivorous birds; Scirpus maritimus; Spartina anglica; Vegetation succession

Indexed keywords

BIRD; MIGRATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

WADDEN SEA;

ANSER ANSER; SCIRPUS MARITIMUS; SPARTINA ANGLICA;

EID: 0032719907     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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