Foraging guilds of aquatic birds on productive boreal lakes: Environmental relations and concordance patterns

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 567, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-30

  Paszkowski, Cynthia A ^a   Tonn, William M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Community structure; Fish assemblages; Landscape position; Multivariate analysis; Waterfowl

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; FORESTRY; LAKES;

CANADA; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FISH ASSEMBLAGES; LANDSCAPE POSITION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WATERFOWL;

OCEAN HABITATS;

BIOINDICATOR; BIRD; BOREAL FOREST; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LAKE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

BIODIVERSITY; FORESTRY; LAKES;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

AVES;

EID: 33746210050     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-006-0053-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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