Experimental assessment of the influence of gull-billed terns on nest site choice of Black Skimmers

Condor

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 174-177

  Pius, Sandra M ^a   Leberg, Paul L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonial waterbirds; Competiton mixed species colony; Nest site selection; Rhynchops niger; Seabird; Sterna nilotica

Indexed keywords

GELOCHELIDON NILOTICA; LARIDAE; LIBELLULIDAE; RHYNCHOPS NIGER; RYNCHOPS NIGER; STERNA; STERNA NILOTICA;

EID: 0036187270     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0174:EAOTIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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