Slave to the tides: Spatiotemporal foraging dynamics of spring staging black brant

Condor

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 661-677

  Moore, Jeffrey E ^a,b   Black, Jeffrey M ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Brant; Eelgrass; Food availability; Humboldt Bay; Staging; Tides

Indexed keywords

ANSER; ANSER SP.; AVES; BRANTA BERNICLA NIGRICANS; ZOSTERA MARINA;

EID: 33748089662     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1650/0010-5422(2006)108[661:STTTSF]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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