Nereidid polychaetes as the major diet of migratory shorebirds on the estuarine tidal flats at Fujimae-Higata in Japan

Zoological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 676-685

  Iwamatsu, Shinichiro ^a   Suzuki, Akiko ^b   Sato, Masanori ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dietary items; Dunlin; Fecal droppings; Migratory shorebirds; Nereidid polychaetes

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIVALVE; CHARADRIIFORMES; CRUSTACEA; DIET; FECES; JAPAN; MIGRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; BIVALVIA; CHARADRIIFORMES; CRUSTACEA; DIET; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FECES; JAPAN; POLYCHAETA; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME FACTORS;

AVES; CALIDRIS; CALIDRIS ALPINA; CALIDRIS RUFICOLLIS; CAPITELLIDA; CRUSTACEA; HEDISTE; HEDISTE DIADROMA; LARUS RIDIBUNDUS; NEANTHES SUCCINEA; NEREIDIDAE; NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA; POLYCHAETA; SPIONIDA;

EID: 34548637665     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: 02890003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.24.676     Document Type: Article

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