Nesting success in Redshank Tringa totanus breeding on coastal meadows and the importance of habitat features used as perches by avian predators

Bird Study

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-296

  Ottvall, Richard ^a,b   Larsson, Kjell ^b   Smith, Henrik G ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDGE EFFECT; NESTING SUCCESS; PREDATION; SURVIVAL;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GOTLAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

ADENOSTOMA SPARSIFOLIUM; AVES; SCOLOPACIDAE; TRINGA TOTANUS; VANELLUS; VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 27244435236     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063650509461402     Document Type: Article

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