Postbreeding movements of American Avocets and implications for wetland connectivity in the western Great Basin

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 290-298

  Plissner, Jonathan H ^a   Haig, Susan M ^a   Oring, Lewis W ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNECTIVITY; DISPERSAL; PATCHINESS; SHOREBIRD; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

GREAT BASIN; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CHARADRIIDAE; RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA;

EID: 0034007982     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4089711     Document Type: Article

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