Critical thresholds of disturbance by people and raptors in foraging wading birds

Biological Conservation

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-97

  Goss Custard, J D ^a,b   Triplet, P ^b   Sueur, F ^c   West, A D ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Syndicat Mixte Pour l'Aménagement de la Côte Picarde ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Groupe Ornithologique Picard   (France)

Author keywords

Behaviour based models; Disturbance; Haematopus ostralegus; Individual based ecology; Overwinter survival

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; RAPTOR; WADER;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; PICARDIE; SOMME; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

AVES; CERASTODERMA EDULE; CHARADRII; HAEMATOPODIDAE; HAEMATOPUS OSTRALEGUS; RAPTORES;

EID: 27644459110     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.07.015     Document Type: Article

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