Wintering shorebird assemblages and behavior in restored tidal wetlands in Southern California

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 139-148

  Armitage, Anna R ^a   Jensen, Stacey M ^b   Yoon, Joy E ^a   Ambrose, Richard F ^b  

^a Texas M University at Galveston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Diversity; Habitat heterogeneity; Landscape matrix; Mudflats; Restoration; Shorebirds

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; HABITAT RESTORATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MUDFLAT; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WADER;

CALIFORNIA; MUGU LAGOON; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CATOPTROPHORUS; CATOPTROPHORUS SEMIPALMATUS; CHARADRIIFORMES; LIMNODROMUS; LIMOSA; LIMOSA FEDOA; SCOLOPACIDAE;

EID: 33947711758     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2006.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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