Rapid population decline in red knots: Fitness consequences of decreased refuelling rates and late arrival in Delaware Bay

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1541, 2004, Pages 875-882

  Baker, Allan J ^a,b   González, Patricia M ^c   Piersma, Theunis ^d,e   Niles, Lawrence J ^f   De Lima Serrano Do Nascimento, Inês ^g   Atkinson, Philip W ^h   Clark, Nigel A ^h   Minton, Clive D T ⁱ   Peck, Mark K ^a   Aarts, Geert ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c Fundacion Inalafquen   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f Endangered and Nongame Species Program   (United States)

^g Ctro Pesq Conservacao das Aves S   (Brazil)

^h THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Australasian Wader Studies Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conservation; Demographic collapse; Horseshoe crab; Migration; Shorebird; Stopover ecology

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL DATE; CONSERVATION STATUS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; MIGRATION; POPULATION DECLINE; STOPOVER; WADER;

ARTICLE; CRAB; DEMOGRAPHY; EGG; FERTILITY; FOOD STORAGE; INTESTINE; LIMULUS; LIVER; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOREBIRD; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SURVIVAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WINTER;

DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH AMERICA; TIERRA DEL FUEGO [(ARC) SOUTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS RUFA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); LIMULUS; MEROSTOMATA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 11144357927     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2663     Document Type: Article

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