Multiple effects of weather on the starvation and predation risk trade-off in choice of feeding location in Redshanks

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 727-736

  Yasue M ^a   Quinn, J L ^a   Cresswell, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy budgets; Habitat selection; Sparrowhawk

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGETICS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT SELECTION; PREDATION RISK; STARVATION; WADER; WEATHER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LOTHIAN; SCOTLAND; TYNINGHAME ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACCIPITER; ACCIPITER NISUS; ANIMALIA; SCOLOPACIDAE; TRINGA; TRINGA TOTANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0348227758     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00783.x     Document Type: Article

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