Landscape context mediates influence of local food abundance on wetland use by wintering shorebirds in an agricultural valley

Biological Conservation

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 298-307

  Taft, Oriane W ^a,b   Haig, Susan M ^a  

^a FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benthic invertebrates; Dunlin (Calidris alpina); Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus); Wetland conservation; Wetland landscape planning; Willamette Valley of Oregon

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; WADER; WETLAND;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CHARADRIUS VOCIFERUS; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 29844453950     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2005.09.036     Document Type: Article

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