Tradeoffs between food abundance and predation danger in spatial usage of a stopover site by western sandpipers, Calidris mauri

Oikos

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 629-637

  Pomeroy, Andrea C ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT USE; MIGRATORY SPECIES; PREDATION RISK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOPOVER; TRADE-OFF; WADER;

BOUNDARY BAY; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; CALIDRIS MAURI; CICONIIFORMES; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 33645113907     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14403.x     Document Type: Article

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