Predation on the southwestern atlantic fiddler crab (Uca uruguayensis) by migratory shorebirds (Pluvialis dominica, P. squatarola, Arenaria interpres, and Numenius phaeopus)

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-54

  Iribarne, Oscar O ^a   Martinez, Mariano M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE MAR DEL PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PREDATION; SHOREBIRD;

ARGENTINA; BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE; SAMBOROMBON BAY;

ANIMALIA; ARENARIA INTERPRES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS; OCYPODIDAE; PLUVIALIS DOMINICA; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA; UCA; UCA URUGUAYENSIS;

EID: 0032896307     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352926     Document Type: Article

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