Distance to high-tide roosts constrains the use of foraging areas by dunlins: Implications for the management of estuarine wetlands

Biological Conservation

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 446-452

  Dias, Maria P ^a   Granadeiro, José P ^a   Lecoq, Miguel ^a   Santos, Carlos D ^a   Palmeirim, Jorge M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Estuaries; Intertidal flats; Saltpans; Shorebirds; Tagus

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GIS; ROOSTING; SALT PAN; TIDAL FLAT; WADER; WETLAND;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TAGUS ESTUARY;

AVES; CALIDRIS ALPINA;

EID: 33745023352     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2006.02.020     Document Type: Article

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