Submersed macrophytes as a food source for wintering waterbirds at Lake Constance

Aquatic Botany

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 245-250

  Schmieder, Klaus ^a   Werner, Stefan ^b   Bauer, Hans Günther ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aythya; Bird migration; Food resource; Fulica; Herbivory; Netta; Submersed macrophytes; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MIGRATION; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; WATERFOWL;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; LAKE CONSTANCE;

ANATIDAE; AVES; AYTHYA; CHARA; CHARACEAE; CHARALES; FULICA; NETTA; NETTA RUFINA;

EID: 32644467583     PISSN: 03043770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquabot.2005.09.006     Document Type: Article

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