Hiding from swans: Optimal burial depth of sago pondweed tubers foraged by Bewick's swans

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 303-315

  Santamaria L ^a   Rodriguez Girones M A ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clonal reproduction; Cygnus columbianus bewickii; Habitat heterogeneity; Potamogeton pectinatus; Spatial refuge

Indexed keywords

DEPTH; HERBIVORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TUBER;

ANIMALIA; ANSERIFORMES; CYGNUS; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON; STUCKENIA PECTINATUS;

EID: 0036224029     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2001.00668.x     Document Type: Article

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