The effect of human activities on migrant shorebirds: Successful adaptive management

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 283-288

  Burger, Joanna ^a   Jeitner, Christian ^a   Clark, Kathleen ^b   Niles, Lawrence J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Endangered and Nongame Species Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Disruptions; Foraging; Human disturbance; Migrants; Shorebirds; Stopover; Temporal patterns

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BREEDING; MIGRATION; SHOREBIRDS; WINTERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

CONSERVATION PLANNING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS;

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORAGING; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; SHOREBIRD; TOURISM; UNITED STATES;

DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

AVES; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 18544373549     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892904001626     Document Type: Article

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