Foraging patterns of Caspian terns and double-crested cormorants in the Columbia River estuary

Northwest Science

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 91-103

  Lyons, Donald E ^a   Roby, Daniel D ^a   Collis, Ken ^b,c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia River Inter Tribal Fish Commission ^*  (United States)

^c Real Time Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NESTING; SALMONID; SEABIRD; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

COLUMBIA ESTUARY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; LARIDAE; PHALACROCORACIDAE; PHALACROCORAX AURITUS; SALMONIDAE; STERNA CASPIA;

EID: 34250805335     PISSN: 0029344X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3955/0029-344X-81.2.91     Document Type: Article

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