Decline of duck nest success revisited: Relationships with predators and wetlands in dynamic prairie environments

Auk

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 497-508

  Drever, Mark C ^a   Wins Purdy, Andreas ^a   Nudds, Thomas D ^a   Clark, Robert G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NESTING SUCCESS; PREDATION; PRODUCTIVITY; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANAS; ANAS ACUTA; ANAS CLYPEATA; ANAS DISCORS; ANAS PLATYRHYNCHOS; ANAS SP.; ANAS STREPERA; ANATIDAE; ANSER; STREPERA;

EID: 2942527642     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4090413     Document Type: Article

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