Impacts of shorebirds on macroinvertebrates in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley

American Midland Naturalist

Volumn 154, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 188-200

  Mitchell, Darren W ^a,b   Grubaugh, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; STOPOVER; WADER;

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHIRONOMIDAE;

EID: 22744435195     PISSN: 00030031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1674/0003-0031(2005)154[0188:IOSOMI]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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