Prediction of bird-day carrying capacity on a staging site: A test of depletion models

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1285-1292

  Nolet, Bart A ^a   Gyimesi, Abel ^a   Klaassen, Raymond H G ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cygnus columbianus bewickii; Foraging threshold; Ideal free distribution; Maximizing or satisficing strategy; Potamogeton pectinatus

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CARRYING CAPACITY; FOOD SUPPLY; MIGRATORY SPECIES; POPULATION MODELING; PREDICTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMASS; DUCKS AND GEESE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT TUBER; POPULATION MIGRATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANSERIFORMES; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT TUBERS;

ANSERIFORMES; AVES; CYGNUS COLUMBIANUS BEWICKII; FOENICULUM VULGARE; PECTINATUS; POTAMOGETON PECTINATUS;

EID: 33749677199     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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