Habitat Use and Diet Selection of Northward Migrating Waders in the Sivash (Ukraine): The Use of Brine Shrimp Artemia Salina in a Variably Saline Lagoon Complex

Ardea

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-83

  Verkuil, Yvonne ^a,b,c   Van Der Have, Tom M ^c   Van Der Winden, Jan ^c   Chernichko, Iosif I ^d  

^a ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c Found Working Grp Intl W   (Netherlands)

^d Azov Black Sea Ornithological Station   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Artemia; Body mass increase; C. ferruginea; Calidris alpina; Feeding activity; Intake rate; Limicola falcinellus; Prey choice; Spring migration

Indexed keywords

DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD SELECTION; HABITAT USE; LAGOON; PREY SELECTION; WADER;

EASTERN EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; UKRAINE;

ANOSTRACA; ARTEMIA; ARTEMIA SALINA; AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS FERRUGINEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMICOLA FALCINELLUS; SALINA; SCOLOPACIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0345376825     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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