Feeding ecology of wintering terns in Guinea-Bissau

Ibis

Volumn 144, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 602-613

  Brenninkmeijer, Alex ^a,b   Stienen, Eric W M ^a,c,f   Klaassen, Marcel ^d,e   Kersten, Marcel ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Ecological Consultancy   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^e NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR NATURE AND FOREST INBO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SEABIRD; TIDE;

GUINEA-BISSAU;

AVES; LARIDAE; STERNA; STERNA ALBIFRONS; STERNA MAXIMA; STERNA SANDVICENSIS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036788650     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1474-919X.2002.00100.x     Document Type: Article

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