Different time and energy budgets of Lesser Snow Geese in rice-prairies and coastal marshes in southwest Louisiana

Waterbirds

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 451-458

  Jónsson, Jón Einar ^a,b   Afton, Alan D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Coastal marshes; Energy budgets; Habitat suitability; Rice prairies; Snow Geese; Time budgets

Indexed keywords

DIET; ENERGY BUDGET; FEEDING; HABITAT TYPE; JUVENILE; MARSH; PRAIRIE; WATERFOWL;

LOUISIANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANSER; AVES; CHEN; CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS;

EID: 33847420549     PISSN: 15244695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1675/1524-4695(2006)29[451:DTAEBO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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