The effects of daily weather variation on foraging and responsiveness to disturbance in overwintering Red Knot Calidris canutus

Ardea

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 229-237

  McGowan, Andrew ^a,c   Cresswell, Will ^b   Ruxton, Graeme D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calidris canutus; Foraging; Predation risk; Raptor; Trade off; Wader; Weather

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; MUDFLAT; OVERWINTERING; PREDATION RISK; RAPTOR; WADER; WEATHER;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS CANUTUS; CICONIIFORMES; FALCO; FALCO PEREGRINUS; PEREGRINUS; RAPTORES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 1542289618     PISSN: 03732266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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