A relationship between prey density and territory size in non-breeding Eastern Curlews Numenius madagascariensis

Ibis

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 518-521

  Zharikov, Yuri ^a   Skilleter, Gregory A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PREY AVAILABILITY; TERRITORY; WADER;

NUMENIUS; NUMENIUS MADAGASCARIENSIS; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 3142700883     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j1474-919X.2004.00258.x     Document Type: Article

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