Waterbird impacts on widgeongrass Ruppia maritima in a Mediterranean wetland: Comparing bird groups and seasonal effects

Oikos

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 525-534

  Rodríguez Pérez, Hector ^a   Green, Andy J ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; SEASONALITY; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

ANDALUCIA; DONANA NATIONAL PARK; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

ANAS; AVES; PHOENICOPTERIDAE; RUPPIA; RUPPIA MARITIMA;

EID: 33645115965     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14307.x     Document Type: Article

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