Effects of a commercial baitworm harvest on Semipalmated Sandpipers and their prey in the Bay of Fundy hemispheric shorebird reserve

Conservation Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 347-356

  Shepherd, Philippa C F ^a,b   Boates, J Sherman ^a  

^a ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HARVESTING; MIGRATORY SPECIES;

CANADA;

EID: 0032904515     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.013002347.x     Document Type: Article

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