A test of cues affecting habitat selection by wading birds

Auk

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1075-1082

  Gawlik, Dale E ^a,b   Crozier, Gaea E ^a,c  

^a EVERGLADES DIVISION   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Everglades; Foraging; Habitat quality; Habitat selection; Sociality; Wading birds

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; NESTING SUCCESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WADER; WATER LEVEL;

EVERGLADES; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 34547759177     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1642/0004-8038(2007)124[1075:ATOCAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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