Color infrared photography is not a good predictor of macro invertebrate abundance on mudflats used by shorebirds

Waterbirds

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-7

  Pomeroy, Andrea C ^a   Butler, Robert W ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Benthic macro invertebrate; Biofilm; Color infrared photography; Inter tidal; Prey; Shorebird

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; PHOTOGRAPHY;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 18844400345     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2005)028[0001:CIPINA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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